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April 01, 2008
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Posted by Roger Shuy at April 1, 2008 08:48 AM

Whoa--thanks, Anna!

What? Are you sure it's April 1 already? Sure it's not a joke?

Well then:

Backyard Cacophony

A large flock of crying seagulls blown in from the shore, scaring the parakeets off in shreeks.
Croaks of crows in loud protest.
Non stop tweets of titmouse and finches, frogs croacking at noon in the neighbour's
" pond " (the seize of half a bathtub), blackbirds and pigeons waiting for their crumbs of bread. The ants are out, soon I'll have my daily argument with the aphids , who are their livestock and the ruin of the apple tree.

Appletree bursting into leaf and blossom.(soundless)
Not much of a handle for discussion but just to say:
"Spring is here at last! "

Now the weather report ten minutes ago must be an April joke too and a bad one, predicting the same rainstorms and night frosts we've been having for ............far too long.

My favorite April Fools' weather joke was during my time in Flagstaff, Arizona. I had just gotten out of class and went to the Latin Quarter bar for a couple of beers. When I went in it wasn't snowing and there was no snow on the ground. I was in the bar long enough for a couple of beers, about an hour and a half. When I came out it wasn't snowing but there was a foot and a half of snow on the ground. As far as I know it could all have come down in about three seconds, just WHUMPPP!!!! I walked home six miles through the woods that night.

Uhhh, just how drunk were you?!?!? LOLOLOL!!! :0)

Yes, I'm familiar with that euphemism...

In this case it wasn't a euphemism; it was a couple of beers. I'd have had to drink all night long or have engaged in a hard game of 5-9-13 to have imagined that snow.