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  • It’s April Fools, All Right (+ Opening Day)

    It’s April Fools, All Right (+ Opening Day)

    phillies-fan

    People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball.

    I’ll tell you what I do.

    I stare out the window and wait for spring.

    –Rogers Hornsby

    Only, today is Opening Day (well, technically I guess it was yesterday but for Phillies fans it’s today) and someone missed the memo about baseball being a SPRING sport.

    Here I’d been stressing over what kind of April Fool’s Day prank I could play on my kids this morning, that wouldn’t make a mess or make them late for the bus… Mother Nature got smart and played a joke that got them jumping out of their beds in a jiffy.

    “Quick! Look out the window, guys! It’s snowing!”

    april-fools-spring-snow

    melting snowflake on hat

    And at that very moment, the snow was thick and furious and freaking unbelievable It tapered off to pretty much nothing in moments, so my pictures aren’t too impressive… April Fool’s on Mom, too.

    Well done, Mother N. How the heck am I gonna top THAT?!

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  • Wordless (ish) Wednesday: Stray gifts

    Wordless (ish) Wednesday: Stray gifts

    peacock-philadelphia-zoo

    Thus pleasure is spread through the earth
    In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find

    -William Wordsworth

    This is my brother.

    (And my SIL, ain’t she purty?)

    peacock walking away

    This is a peacock.

    peacock in tree

    This is a rogue peacock in my brother’s backyard.

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    I found out about it on Facebook.

    When I inquired as to when I might receive my peacock, my brother wrote:

    Animal control said it could be aggressive.

    I don’t need to show up to job interviews with a shiner I got from an angry stray peacock.

    My brother had a peacock in his backyard and he called animal control instead of me. When clearly the universe intended that peacock as something my brother could give me as THE MOST AWESOME SURPRISE EVER.

    This is how I feel about that.

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    polar bear sticking out tongue

    braying donkey

    I’m changing the number saved on his phone; next time he goes to call animal control it will dial me instead.

    It’s a necessary precaution should this ever appear in his driveway.

    flamingo feathers

    flamingo

    One ought not give away stray gifts.

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    In related news I saw this tweeted by the Social Media Bitch (@The_SMB) today.

    My average post runs about 1400 words. This one is 195.

    God help me, I’m trying REAL HARD.

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  • First Day of Spring, 2011

    First Day of Spring, 2011

    single yellow daffodil

    Spring has returned.

    The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

    -Rainer Maria Rilke

    Today is the vernal equinox, and at 7:21pm the moment we’ve all been waiting for arrives: winter turns to spring.

    And I am happy.