Yesterday's snow?? All gone! It warmed up here by mid-afternoon, and the whole mucky mess disappeared. But you get the unsettling feeling that it is always hiding somewhere, just out of sight, ready to return at any given time. You can never let your guard down...

Today, I'd like to take a few moments to talk about the letter "S". No, you haven't accidentally surfed the Google over to a Sesame Street site, I've just got nothing else in my brain this morning (how's THAT for a free setup, Mrs. That Dan Guy??)...

The letter "S" is one of the more helpful letters in the alphabet. It makes words plural, like cantaloupes, or mooses. It makes a word like "sassy" sound...well...sassy...

It is also used in some bad words, like the one adults use in the place of the much more refined and socially acceptable "poop". And, of course, it would be "poops" with an "S"...

Not to be mistaken with "Proops", the guy with the glasses from "Whose Line Is It Anyway"...

"S", like every other letter, is available in both capital and lower case. It often starts a word, but can also finish it. Sometimes both, as in: "stinks".

Like today's posting...

Chow for now!!

PS - Farewell to David Letterman's pal, recurring character Larry "Bud" Melman (not a single "S" in sight), real name Calvert DeForest. Died Monday at age 85...