Today has not been on our calendar for four years. If you are one of the fortunate few born on this day you have not had as many birthdays as the rest of us. Bombas Socks just texted me that I should not endure another second in sub-par socks…

‘If it comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb,’ Billy B said with a wide grin on his face for his poetic acuity. ‘Spring begins this month, he proudly proclaimed.

‘Today is February 29…Leap Day,’ Jane informed Billy B. ‘I have heard that strange things happen on Leap Day,’ Jane continued.

My friend Horatio was born on Leap Day and I only see him every 4 years,’ Chet said. ‘He will be at school today and we will go out for his favorite hot dogs and I will bring my Oscar Mayer Weiners,’ he continued.

‘Where does Horatio go for the 4 years he is gone,’ Neva J asked? ‘Does he live overseas,’ she asked? ‘He resembles you a bit,’ Neva J told Chet.

‘Horatio says that he lives nearby but it is hard to explain the directions on how to get to his house…he told me that I would feel at home there,’ Chet replied.

‘Greetings my friends…I am enjoying the lovely temperatures in Eldorado. It is so much hotter where I come from,’ Horatio said as he wiped his brow. ‘At times we do not go out of doors because it is over 100 degrees and the air is nasty for breathing,’ he said.

‘Why do you only visit on Leap Day,’ Jane asked? ‘You seem so familiar,’ she noted with anticipation.

‘My Dad had a special admonishment that he said to me each morning when he woke me for school,’ Horatio said with a wink. ‘I am from the future…not the far off future but the near future…50 years from now,’ Horatio said. ‘I visit on Leap Day as that is the day that the Mirror Portal in Neva J’s bedroom will operate.’ ‘I come to eat hot dogs with Chet and see a movie at the Orpheum Theatre…and this time to warn you of what is coming for Eldorado and the world,’ Horatio noted.

‘Hit the deck you rubber neck…is that what your Dad said each morning,’ Chet asked with a tear in his eye?

‘The reason I told you that you would feel at home if you visited me is because we live in the same family home…separated by 50 years…Dad,’ Horatio said…

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