Shehecheyanu when I am sitting on 7H porch and a flight of several dozen pelicans glides by close, so close as to fill the porch's picture-frame of my view; close, level, and, before I can grab my camera, tilts up to the right and sails off toward their dayTime fishing perch - -  shehecheyanu. Baruch ata, Adonai Eloheinu Melech haOlam, blessed art thou, Lord our God, King of the universe, shehecheyanu, who gives life.  Top pic: I did manage to snap a little flight of a few, and one of an osprey arriving to fish for breakfast.  That's today, Monday after Sunday: שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יהוה, אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ Baruch Ata Adonai, Eloheinu Melech Haolam, shehecheyanu Blessed are You Lord our God King of the Universe, who gives life Sunday: just after five o'clock this morning I was outside on 7H porch sipping hot & black, when I realized I'd left my phone inside. I'd picked it up first, carried it to where the coffee was filling the ro...

In the old days of Summer my panic would be starting to set in because a third of summer vacation would be over already. God help the poor kids today, they only get two months, so it's HALF over for them. There may be some disagreement, and I'm certain of nothing, but when I started at Cove School back in September 1941, our Bay District Summer Vacation was four months, which I ya ya ya'd at my Pensacola first cousins, who went to school nine months to our eight.  All that has been said here before and not been contested. I'm thinking of May 8 as a day Summer Vacation started one glorious Summer eighty-some years ago. Bubba was not an enthusiastic student. Summer Vacation was my Happy Place, and Christmas Vacation second happiest. The notion of MLP, My Laughing Place didn't come to me until "Song of the South" came to the Ritz Theatre and I watched Brer Rabbit tricking Brer Fox and Brer Bear out of roasting him on a barbecue spit over a hot fire. Brer Bear...