From The Half-Red House

There’s a song I learned in elementary school from a book that was probably published in the 19th century that goes like this:

When the first wild bee is humming on the lea
That’s proof that the Spring is here,
But the bee might go back home again to sleep.
Don’t fly too far; you know how Aprils are,
But when tops all hum from the string,
Then you know it’s truly Spring.

I figured I’d ask if there’s anybody else out there who learned the song and if they might know the other verses. It had several, but I only memorized the first. Here’s a tiny MP3 of me singing the tune: Truly Spring (http://www.halfredhouse.biz/radio/trulyspring_vocal.mp3)

I figured that since April is almost over, it was high time I

Today at Meeting, a dear Friend rose to ask our help in saving the life of a poor little bird she had noticed for two days repeatedly bashing its head against the glass of one of the Meeting House windows. She wondered if anybody know a way to keep this from happenning, and another woman said she had solved a similar poblem at her house by putting a silhouette of a crow in her window. Yet another woman was present who was good at making stencils and such, and she soon had fashioned two crows to put in the window. So far the little bird has not been back to the window.

Oracle Corporation is buying Sun Microsystems. and, in addition to the loss of good jobs for lots of skilled Sun employees (and probably Oracle and suppliers’ employees too), this poses a huge threat to those of us who have come to depend on open-source (and free) software. Sun is the “home base” for both MySQL database and the Open Office project, which is the only genuinely viable alternative to the Microsoft empire. Oracle sells database software for outrageously high prices. Who believes for a second that it will continue to offer development and support for its free rival MySQL or for an office package that is not fabulously lucrative?

Either

1. Someone (maybe you and me?) will have to do the tedious and duplicative work of reverse-engineering