December 22, 2005

Old Diablo Family Saying: A Bird in the Hand Hurts Like Hell



As a young girl, Pinky's Aunt Grover Cleavland Diablo (known as Aunt Cleavie) caught a hummingbird by letting it stab its bill into her hand. She married a man named Sam. He, of course, became Uncle Sam. Quite a patriotic branch of the family!