What is an icker anyway?

I while back someone was asking me to explain the blog title and tagline. I harumphed that it is enough that I go through the trouble of maintaining this blog just for your amusement, giving you guys all kinds of advice and information to help you in your daily journey into the light, one would think that you all could go to the trouble of typing a few lines of text into a search engine and figuring this out for yourselves...but apparently not...Now, if you are from the Appalachian mountain area, you probably already know what it all means because your grandmother probably spoke Scottish and perhaps even recited this very poem to you at one time...is this not so? No? Well, if you get out your trusty Scottish-English dictionary, you will find that "daimen icker" means "an odd ear of corn," which pretty much sums up what I am all about. The line is from the Robert Burns poem "To A Mouse," in which he apologizes to a mouse for overturning her nest just as winter is coming on. He asks, what's so bad about a little mouse on the farm anyway? We're talking about the loss of, say, one ear of corn out of a bushel, we won't really miss it! That's what this blog is. A toss-away. Let the mouse have it. Out of all the blogs out there, who will miss this daimen icker when it is gone? All the action is over on You Tube now anyway...