It’s Spring, ladies. Get out your best hat!

Guys too!

I asked Mark for a mascot for the Independent Evangelist. This is what I got. Good job, Old Man.

Some Trivia

(in case you’re ever on Jeopardy)

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs - Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.

In Shakespeare' s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, 'Goodnight, sleep tight'

Mark, Chip, Jeff, Barb, Jenni, Doug, Sonya, Sean! Stop trying to lick your elbows! That’s enough trivia for now.

Springtime is also for ballooning!