Happy St. Patrick's Day

Top of the morning to all you wee green folks today. Our friend Tank and his assistant
posted a limerick yesterday in honor St. Pat's Day. They invited other bloggers to do try their hand with a Limerick. (If you have never visited Tank's blog,
you should do so ASAP..he is one funny Pup.)
Here is our attempt:

There once was a cat named Madi
She told all she was no fatty
She jumped high and low
Ran to and fro
Just to prove it was a fib told by the ratty.

Here are a few interesting facts about St. Patrick's Day

1. It is a religious feast day and the anniversary of the death of St. Patrick in the fifth century.
2. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years.
3. It normally falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast on a traditional meal of Irish Bacon and cabbage.
4. The first St. Patrick's Day parade was held in the USA. Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City on March 17, 1762.
5. Chicago is famous for a somewhat peculiar annual event: dyeing the Chicago River green. This tradition started in 1962 when the city pollution-control workers used dyes to trace illegal sewage discharges and realized that the green dye might provide a unique way to celebrate the holiday. That year they released 100 pounds of green vegetable dye into the river, enough to keep it green for a week.

Have a Great Green Day,
Madi and Mom