Well, Mother Nature
pulled quite an April Fools’ joke on us. Here we were all celebrating spring when
the weather did a complete about face.
I wanted to wear a
dress to Easter services and even tried to psych myself up for a pedicure in
case I decided to wear my sandals. Instead, I wore my boots and my winter coat.
Sunday dawned with below freezing temperatures with wind chills thrown in for
good measure.
That’s what happens
when Easter Sunday falls on April Fools Day. Ma Nature thinks she’s a jokester.
Just to make a point, we had that good old thunder snow, wintery mixture
falling all over the place during the afternoon.
For some reason, Sunday
seemed so long that I kind of thought we’d moved right into Tuesday. As I
pulled myself out of a sound sleep Monday morning, I couldn’t seem to lift my
body out of bed. I propped myself up on pillows, glanced at my cell phone, and
then pulled the blanket up over me and
thought about the month ahead.
April has always
been the month of taxes, conferences, and enjoying the signs of nature’s
rejuvenation. It is also a month that catches me off guard at one time or
another. Today was that day. I lay in bed thinking about the memories I can’t
let go.
April 5, 1970, was
the day Jim came home from Vietnam. We celebrated his “homecoming” by making it
a special day for him. I know one year we forgot our wedding anniversary, but
we never forgot his homecoming. It was a happy day when he came back to the
“world.” Happy days make sad memories. Homecoming day never passes that I don’t
think of him.
April 18, 2005, he left the
world for a better place.
That didn’t make it any easier for the people who loved him. Just thinking
about that day, makes my heart hurt.
If I’m going to
make it through April without letting it get me down, I’m going to have to
accentuate the positive. I know sunshine will eventually chase away the gloomy
skies and cold weather. Mother Nature will get back on her meds and show us
some sunshine, blue skies, and cotton-candy clouds. Of course, we might have a
few random thunderstorms and tornadoes thrown in the mix for excitement.
It is
springtime—time for daffodils, tulips, irises, and lilacs to bloom. The birds
will be tweet-tweedle-tweeting every morning.
In the meantime, I’d really
like to take the dog out without bundling up like it’s a cold January day. Hey, Mother
Nature, I’m calling you out. This is April 2 and the weather is
still miserable. I remember a rhyme from school when someone played a joke a
day late. “April Fools is already past, and you’re the biggest fool at
last!” It’s not nice when Mother Nature
acts like a fool.
Copyright © April 2018
by L.S. Fisher
#ENDALZ
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