May is always a great month. It brings warmer temperatures, yes! even here in Toronto the Good. It brings the Kentucky Derby, Long Weekends to enjoy, Canada first, then Memorial Day "down South," aka, as The USA, lovely tulips (Thank You, Holland) and let's not forget TV Sweeps. Now that we will soon be in re-runs the networks will be going at it full speed ahead to out do each other getting viewers to tune in during this crucial ratings month. And let's not forget Mother's Day. I had to laugh last night, while watching The Amazing Race. Contestants had to eat Chinese Delicacies, aka as Deep Fried Bugs! in either Canada or the Good Ole US of A. One of the Featured Fried Critters was a grasshopper. His "sidekicks," and we are not talking Lipton here, were Star Fish, and Larvae. I would have accepted defeat at that last one. There is no way i could eat the "spongy inside," as contestant Victor described what eating larvae tasted like. I would have thrown in my barf bag, my passport, my acceptance tickets from CBS in, along with the proverbial "towel," and maxed out my VISA Card, for a ticket homeward bound (did you know that is where the word Hobo comes from? ) Well, count me in as one Hobo, because that would be where I would be headed. Eating larvae is my Achilles Heel, or in this instance, my Gag Reflex Heel. Once upon a time, as a joke, I bought my mother chocolate covered grasshoppers, bees, crickets and ants. Totally as a joke. Expecting them to sit on display in our living room till the End of Time. Mais non! Not my Mother. Thanks to some help from Seagram's Seven and the 7-Up Company, those dipped to die for crisy critters were gone within an hour, when my Mom treated herself and our Mailman to lunch time delicacies from Wanamakers, Philadelphia. And you thought all the perks were gone from the Post Office. You've never delivered mail in Shamokin, Pa. Make that, you never delivered mail in the 5th Ward, in Shamokin, Pa. Betsy Balega May 4, 2009