I like the idea of playing harmless jokes on people. It is fun to get people out of their comfort zone for a few moments. There have been some really creative practical jokes concocted over the years.

If anyone has ever played a joke on you on April Fools Day, please write a comment on my post and share the story. I’d love to hear it!

My mom suffered from hayfever really badly but thank goodness none of us kids seem to have inherited that. I know that she would spend two long moths sneezing and coughing and being miserable while the ragweed bloomed and pollenated the area.

Eventually, my mom got shots that helped cure her of the ragweed allergies, but now that I live in Tennessee, something n the air makes me sneeze every spring for two, sometimes three, weeks. I notice it always happens when the Redbud trees are starting to bloom. I wonder if that is an allergy in itself or does something else bloom at the same time as the Redbuds that is really causing me to be suffering?

Everyone is wearing green today and they risk getting pinched. That is half the fun of having St. Patrick’s Day celebrated in America. There’s no really good reason for us to be celebrating something that happened in Ireland, other than it’s a good excuse for people with any Irish in their bloodline to go have a party. And that is good enough for me!

So many people are bitching and complaining about the new Timeline – I don’t know what their problem is. I’m happy to see the change and I love trying new things. I am shocked to realize that so many of my friends are just fuddy duddies who live their lives in a big rut and resist anything new or exciting. I am starting to question whether I should even keep them as friends?

Down South, there is a different groundhog in Georgia. Since I live in the South, I believe that General Beauregard Lee will be closer to the actual predictions for this area. But last year neither groundhog was right in their predictions.

So, forgive me if I’m a little skeptical this year. In fact, when I researched their track record of the predictions over the past 50 years, they were wrong about one quarter of the time.

For one thing, the few times that she actually even cooks, she cooks two or three times as much food as we need to actually feed the people who will be eating. There is just not good reason for cooking enough food for 6-8 people when it is just two of us at home to eat it.

In the second place, she refuses to eat leftovers. She always make a big deal about finding the perfect sized plastic  storage containers and bowls that she covers with Saran Wrap and crowds the refrigerator with a half dozen bowls. And then, she leaves them there. What does she think? That I want to eat that leftover food? No thanks, I don’t even like her cooking when it is fresh. I sure don’t want to reheat the stuff and eat it for 3 or 4 days later!