may the fourth be with you...and other fun stuff

may the fourth be with you! (and if you've grown up going to church, you might say...and also with you!) a funny way to play with words and church practices.

i saw a funny cartoon about may the fourth earlier today. it said something like, "if today is "may the fourth be with you" and tomorrow is cinco de mayo, does that make monday "revenge of the sixth"? (these are star wars references. i'm not a huge star wars fan but these are kind of funny to me.)

these got me thinking about the different sayings about the months, even one about how many days each month has in it. 

     thirty days hath september,

     april, june, and november,
     february has twenty-eight alone,
     all the rest have thirty-one;
     excepting leap year,-that 's the time
     when february's days are twenty-nine.
                              - - - author unknown

then you also have those about each month. i grew up hearing these...

     march comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

     april showers bring may flowers. (i really hope that our "showers" are over and that "flowers" are

     definitely in our future!)

then when we lived on the west coast we heard a couple more that were directly related to the weather...

     may gray

     june gloom

     july fry and august dust (we made these up because it would get so hot in july and august.)

i never realized there are so many poems, quotes and sayings about the months and days of the week. here's one more:

     january cold and desolate;

     february dripping wet;
     march wind ranges;
     april changes;
     birds sing in tune
     to flowers of may,
     and sunny June
     brings longest day;
     in scorched july
     the storm-clouds fly,
     lightning-torn;
     august bears corn,
     september fruit;
     in rough october
     earth must disrobe her;
     stars fall and shoot
     in keen november;
     and night is long
     and cold is strong
     in bleak december.
                         - - - christina giorgina rossetti "the months"

i remember this one from when i was little, about the days of the week.

     monday's child is fair of face,     tuesday's child is full of grace,     wednesday's child is full of woe,     thursday's child has far to go.     friday's child is loving and giving,     saturday's child works hard for a living,     but the child born on the sabbath day,     is fair and wise and good and gay.                         - - - mother goose

i was just curious what i could find and wanted to see if there were more that i didn't know. there were several that i didn't know but i just wanted to focus on the ones that i was a little bit familiar with. 

so "may the fourth be with you"!