Our biggest
fooler, Hannah, has been up to some tricks today! She
Suran-Wrapped the potty. Whew! Her sister, Rebekah, barely noticed in time. She used blue toothpaste to make a large
smilie face on the mirror. She got up early to make breakfast and if the first pancakes hadn't scorched on the bottom, we all would have been eating circles of cardboard! (The milk was also turned pink). She hid Rebekah's new "favorite" toy- a mother and baby
Squirrel Monkey pets under her green towel.
We survived! Here are some other funny April Fool's Days:
Pasta on Trees: In 1957, a well-respected BBC news show, Panorama, declared an abundance in an important Swiss crop: spaghetti noodles from spaghetti trees. After including footage of Swiss farmers pulling the fruit off the trees, many viewers called and asked how they might grow their own spaghetti trees.
- You Can Ring This Bell : The Taco Bell Corporation announced to in 1996 that it would be purchasing the historic Liberty Bell and renaming it—as the Taco Liberty Bell. Outraged citizens were only assuaged when Taco Bell asserted it was a joke. When asked about it in a press meeting, White House Press secretary Mike McCurry dryly responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold and would henceforth be called the Lincoln Mercury Memorial.
- Extra Fun(nies): In 1997, comic strip readers opened the funny section and saw that their favorite strips looked different. In a grand move, forty-six comic strip writers had swapped strips for the day. Garfield could be found in Blondie, eating Dagwood’s sandwich, and the Family Circus mother was found, with an oddly Dilbert-like hairdo, telling young Billy that he needed to “work cuter, not harder.”
Sources: museumofhoaxes.com and wikipedia.org
Saturday was a day full of adventures around here.
We played Guinea Pig Parlor and shampooed, conditioned, and cut the Peruvian long-haired guinea pigs hair. While in the garage rinsing off guinea pig hair Jonathan came to me and said, "Mom, I found a bird! It is really cold and shaking." "Where?" He lead me to a back corner by a sliding glass window and there on the floor was a yellow house finch. It was indeed shaking. I took a clean, soft cloth and scooped it up and brought it out by the bird feeder. There it circled around and we discovered that it had hurt one of it's legs.
Rebekah called Aunt Beth, our Zoologist, and she said she would come and take a look. She instructed Bekah to put it in a box with something soft. She did. Moments later Rebekah brought the peaceful bird to me. It was sitting in the box with it's eye's closed and it's wings wrapped in close to it's body. Dad and Bekah and Jonathan had an impromptu funeral and the small bird was buried in the front rose garden.
Bekah and I had a long talk about where birds go when they die. Then she worked for a long time on the table on this (above post-it note). It says: "is there a heaven in the sky for birds to fly to when they die?"
