Happy Mayday
It's May first- Mayday. I think it used to be a day of celebration. I really should look it up before I start making comments about it, but I assume it was kind of like a celebration of spring or some such thing years ago. How something happy could have a totally different meaning is beyond me. If you hear the words MAYDAY! on the radio, it's a sign that someone is in serious trouble and needs some help. It's something you hope to never hear while out on the boat and you certainly don't want to be the one who is declaring a mayday. As per usual, I've taken a subject and run with it in a manner that I hadn't planned on, though frankly, I'm not sure what I'm writing about right now. It's cold and windy and spitting rain today, not at all what I would imagine May first to feel like, or at least not what I was hoping it would be like. While I'm grateful that we aren't experiencing tornadoes, snow, wildfires, floods or other severe weather ph...