APRIL THE FOIST

 Ha!

My April Fool's Day joke is that I didn't fool you!

I couldn't think of anything funny but still I was a victim.

The BRD and her Beau Jack got me this morning.

I won't honor them by telling you how but they got me and laughed uproarishly as I shouted nasty names at them over the telephone.

So enjoy yourselves, ********!

In the meantime, I'll save my jokes for tomorrow.

GROOMING

 I went out to fill the birdbath a little while ago and noticed that the yard had gotten messy again.

The hose drags the red bark chips around when I pull it over to fill the bath.

SWMBO likes a nice clean perimeter so I got out the rake and raked the yard, bringing as many of the straying red chips as possible back to where they belonged.

You probably can't see much improvement but believe me it looks better.

I guess this sunny day with temperatures climbing found me ambitious.

DREAM ON

 Apropos of nothing other than the fact that I bought some lottery tickets recently in hopes of winning the Powerball or the MegaMillions or just The Pick . . this cartoon sent to me today rang a bell and made me laugh.

I hope it does you too.

Unless it makes you cry.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, I had 7 tickets on three separate "games".

I got no numbers on any of them.

Zip.

Nada.

Zilch.

(sigh)

A CONCENTRATED GAZE

 Well, surprise.

On one of several visits to our yard by the Siamese and the Gray, I DID get a photo.

Although the Siamese did come right up to the slider by the time I got there with my camera he had skittishly left again.

But this guy.

What a confident stare and what a beautiful face.

(cue the close-up)

WEATHER REPORT (again)

 To those of you concerned about my crumby weather a few days ago, I just wanted you to know that it's blue skies, sunshine and 70 degrees today.

No, really!

And we've had a plethora of pussies in the yard today.

Matty rounded up a beautiful Siamese who followed him over to visit and that one was followed by a gray that we saw the other day.

For once everyone was peaceful and why didn't I get any pictures of them?

Because I'm hopeless.

THE FRIDAY FUNNIES

 Here we are once again at the antepenultimate day of the week.

Or the penultimate if you, like the calendar, believe a new week begins with Sunday.

Whatever you call today, it's Friday.

And I'm sure you know what that means.

So there you are - sure fire weight loss.

I hope you have a fruitful weekend, full of frolic and fun.

And always remember to keep laughing!

Here, kitty-kitty . . .

(Awwwww . . . .)

TBT & FFP

 Many years ago we inherited a chair from my late aunt in San Francisco.

She apparently favored a few antiques in furnishing her home.

This one we called The Monk's Chair.

It's been with us for several decades now from home to home, country to country, state to state and city to city.

But always with the admonition my aunt gave us when we first laid eyes on it: that chair is never to be sat on.

When we've gone on the BRD will inherit it and hopefully she'll take as good care of it as we have.

The M thinks it goes quite well with one of her two Music Tables.

That takes care of TBT in the title of this post (ThrowBack Thursday).

And now for the FFP.

Courtesy of Carol the Comic, a Friday Funnies Preview.

Yuk-Yuk-Yuk!