March 17 ,St. Patrick's Day.  Where are the Leprachauns? The four leaf clovers and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? I love the river dancing and the color green that goes with loving the Irish! Being part Irish myself I take a fancy to red headed folks but not too much for all the beer drinking the Irish are known for. But being from Kentucky my forefathers were a stickler for some good ole home made liquor known as Moonshine. I think my granddad had a moonshine still in the mountains behind his house and would be gone for days. Then after a while the family would here a loud hollering from atop the mountain and knew granddad was coming down from the mountain to sober up.  You see the Irish part of my family tree comes from him.

When I was in school St. Patrick's Day was known as "ST. Pinchy day" because if you were not wearing the color green in some form or fashion you would get the daylights pinched out of you by everyone who had the inclination to pinch. Just like a bunch of little crawdads pinching you till you would run away from them and find something green to stick on your person. If nothing else tape a piece of green paper to your person to stop all the painful pinches. Sometimes the teachers would fix everyone a green clover shape name tag just to keep all the kids behaved. But like most mean kids they would pinch you anyway cause they said it was not part of your clothing so it didn't really count as green.