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April is here. For us in the northern hemisphere, it’s a time for showers and spring flowers. Leaves return to the barren trees and green grass emerges from its slumber. Migrating birds return to the summer home they share with year-round residence, and day and night air fills with familiar sounds that have been absent.
April is also a time for celebrations – a month to increase awareness about cancer control, Cesareans, irritable bowels, alcohol, autism, math, habitats, multiple births, heartworm, Parkinson’s, stress, pet first aid, testicular cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, DNA, genomics, & stem cells.
April is a time for month-long promotions about greyhound adoption, amateur radio, car care, welding, community spirit, home improvement, card & letter writing, facial protection, landscape architecture, safe digging, and rebuilding.
April is a month to appreciate couples, frogs, military children, decorating, holy humor, guitars, jazz, humor, kites, poetry, straw hats, and smiles.
April is a time to celebrate Food Month while cherishing culinary delights as soft pretzels, cranberries & gooseberries, grilled cheese sandwiches, BLTs, tomatillos, Asian Pears, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, pecans, and soy foods.
April celebrates Knuckles Down and provides 30 opportunities to issue a Twit Award.
April always starts with All Fools Day. I love this classic video that aired in the UK on April 1, 1957. (Start at 30 seconds) Enjoy – and good luck with finding a fool today.
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Ah, the old spaghetti crop video, Frank! April Fool’s Day is also my sister’s birthday. I had a great time with that when I was a kid. Now I just hope the card I sent her on Saturday reaches her in time.
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Lame,
SNL also did this years ago (about 1980). Then again, maybe they used this BBC clip, but I think they dd their variation. Happy Birthday to your sis! Mom of Thurber?
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Happy April Frank, thanks for the heads up here with all of these, there were a couple of things there I had TOTALLY forgotten about. April sure is a busy month, I’d better get on with it to make sure I mark all of those in some way…
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Vanessa,
I imagine you forgot that April was irritable bowel awareness month, jazz appreciation month, and Brussels spouts month! Enjoy!!!
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It’s not often you find “irritable bowel” and “enjoy” in the same sentence! April’s one crazy month…
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Well said!
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April is also the month I turn 29 for the second time. I really don’t want to go with my real age.
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Catherine,
Woo hoo! Cheers to your birthday month!
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Oh Frank, that clip is brilliant. I just happened to be watching BBC where the producer of the program was talking about making the story and I opened your post to find it…thank you.
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Debra,
Totally coincidental, but I’ll take good timing! Thanks for letting me know.
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The BBC are showing the spaghetti story on the news!
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GFB,
I imagine a BBC producer must be a reader of this blog, thus got the idea about the revisit from me.
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Everyone should read your blog Frank!
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Now there’s an endorsement!
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I’m a fool every day ….. our most memorable TV April fool joke was in the 60’s and we were told that a tight would give us color TV. just hold it in front of the screen – brilliant, there was thousands of tights wasted that day over here. Mom and me .. wasted a pair too. *smile Happy April, Frank
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Viveka,
Now that’s a good one … cheers to the person who thought of that one!
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Yes, it was so brilliant .. best so far.
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April is also a time to enjoy some longed for sun 🙂
Enjoy your April Frank.
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Colline,
Cincinnati had great weather on its biggest day of the year (yesterday) as it was warm and sunny with blue skies. Oops … but yesterday was still March. Today is supposed to be warmer, but the rains are behind it.
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Absolutely brilliant video! What an idea! Made my day!
Have a wonderful April, Frank and …don’t believe everything you hear today! 😉
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Marina,
Maybe I will stay at home today for protection. 😉 … I took yesterday off for some fun, so today’s to-do list is lengthy.
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Wise thinking! 🙂
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Just do what I can …. maybe I go to the grocery store and ask customer service if they have any naturally-grown spaghetti.
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😆 😆 😆
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Home grown spaghetti. Will bring the wine, Italian coffee and “home grown” cannoli for dessert. Ask Mrs. aFA if she minds another plate at the table….I’ll be there around supper time.
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Raye,
Sounds like a plan as she will enjoy your company. Naturally grown spaghetti tastes so much better than the mass-produced, processed kind. If people only really knew!
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All the ignorants running around…
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…. and they are plentiful … and unfortunately multiple at an exponential rate.
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When you come over, we’ll make you hand-made fresh fettucini.
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I will remember this offer!
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Thanks for sharing the Spaghetti Hoax video. I hadn’t seen it before. I do hope it was organically grown. 🙂 Happy April to you.
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Sylvia,
Organically-grown spaghetti has better flavor and more nutrients than the processed strands.
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😀
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Hehehe 🙂
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They did square eggs this morning ^_^
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Al,
The chickens in Lucchio (Italy) do lay square eggs. http://tinyurl.com/pwl7au
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Happy April, Frank!
Sorry to have been away all weekend. I don’t know how many posts I may have missed, but it’s going to be a busy month for me–traveling to the beach, teaching a week-long workshop, and having friends visit from the US. Fun, but YIKES!
As I commented on another blog, maybe all of this happening at once is appropriate, given that it’s April, after-all. When it rains,, it pours. Right?
By the way, spaghetti harvest, my ass!!!!
Hugs from Ecuador,
Kathy
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Kathy,
Ask around to down there to see if there is a version/variety of spaghetti trees that can grow in the Ecuadoran climate.
Sounds like you have busy times ahead … so good luck and enjoy!
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Haha! Love the video… but now I’m craving spaghetti! Which isn’t all that unusual. 😀
Happy Spring, and 1st Day of April, Frank! No shortage of fools ’round here. I take the #1 spot, at home.
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Hey Vix,
Interestingly, you were commenting here as I was at your place. Serendipity at work!
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Oh for sure! And I forgot to say, raising cup, “Salute”
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Cheers!
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I was halfway through reading an online science article on a new theory about the Permian mass-extinction when I remembered what day it was. Now I don’t know what to think. I suggest that April 1 be officially designated as National Skeptics’ Day. 😀
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Interestingly, a quick search tells me Skeptic Days are January 13 and October 13 … nonetheless, beware of serious articles today.
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I eagerly await our trees’ first blossoms and our tulips first eruption. As for frog appreciation–well, I may not jump on that bandwagon. 😉
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Carrie,
OK … so you aren’t a frog fan … but that’s OK …. so cheers to the upcoming blooms in your area.
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I’ve been excitedly watching the buds on the smallest tree limbs come in.
Happy April!
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Guapo,
I know you have had a countdown going, so I’m sure the signs are making you smile.
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Ha ha made me wonder how I would have reacted to that prank in ’57!! 😀 Happy April Frank.
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Madhu,
That is a classic prank …. and I’m anxious to hear about some of the big ones pulled today.
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Me too 🙂
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Whatever happened to the Spaghetti Weevil? Are they extinct now?
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Resa,
That weevil can ruin a harvest, which would drive prices up.
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I made it through the 1st without getting pranked! Yay me, I’m really gullible and usually get fooled…
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Hood,
That a way! Good job of staying clear of getting fooled.
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You have had a tough winter bring on spring for you guys!!!
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Kellie,
Yesterday, the grocery store cashier commented about how windy it was … to which I responded, “No problem as it is much better than the snow.”
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Enjoyed the post and good wishes for a wonderful April. Regards.
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Dilip,
Many thanks … and your site is one I have yet to revisit upon return from my moving chores … but I shall return!
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I want a pasketti tree! 😀
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RoSy,
Wisconsin climate is not conducive for it. Neither is a marshmallow tree.
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I was afraid that you were going to say that… 😦
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