April Fun Facts:

01 International fun at work day
02 Peanut butter and jelly day
03 Tweed day
04 Walk around things day
05 Go for broke day
06 Sorry Charlie day
07 No housework day
08 Carmel popcorn day
09 Winston Chirchill day
10 Golfer's day
11 Eight track day
12 Big wind day
13 Scrabble day
14 Pecan day
15 Rubber eraser day*
16 Eggs Benedict day
17 Bat Appreciation day
18 Juggler's day
19 Garlic day
20 Look alike day
21 High five day
22 Jelly bean day
23 Zucchini day
24 Pig in a blanket day
25 Penguin day
26 Pretzel day
27 Babe Ruth day
28 Astronomy day
29 Arbor day
30 Hairstyle Appreciation day

*The rubber eraser, called "the plug," by those in the know, is the part people use to erase the errors they make with a pencil. An ingredient called "factice" is what does the erasing. It is a product made with rape-seed oil from the Dutch East Indies mixed with sulfur chloride. Rubber, contrary to the common notion, is only for binding purposes.
So now you know.

April

One year.
Lets see If I can keep this going.


So,
Last month I decided to try the cuisine at the Wyoming Valley Medical Center.
Veggie broth for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Near the end of my stay they let me have orange Jello™ and vanilla ice cream.




So I never got around to the St. Patrick's Day extravaganza.


You know St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland?
Know what he said when he did?

"You boys comfy back there?"

So now we are in New Hope, PA and a quick trip over to Longwood Gardens, one of the DuPont homes, now a public garden.

The DuPont folks didn't like the fact they could not grow oranges in PA so they built an indoor citrus garden, heated by four boilers that used 150,000 gallons of fuel per year so they could have fresh OJ any time. The oranges and limes didn't work out, so they had them torn out and replaced with tropical palms and orchids.

And a bunch of other bushes and leafy green things.

At one point, I said to Mary "this place needs little brightly colored birds and snakes."

A moment later a guy walked past me and said to his family "this place needs a bunch of little monkeys."

 

I think snakes would be better, somehow.

 

But that is just one guys opinion.