{"id":3207,"date":"2020-04-01T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2020-04-01T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:34:13","slug":"april-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/?p=3207","title":{"rendered":"April Fools\u2019!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color:var(--color-text);\">Google may have cancelled April Fools\u2019 Day, but my silly husband didn\u2019t get the memo. After forty years of him savouring every April 1st, I should have known I could count on him to coax a giggle or two out of me, even in the midst of a pandemic. I can\u2019t remember most of the tricks he\u2019s played over the years, although the one where he duct taped the kids\u2019 bedroom doors shut is hard to forget. I think it was all the scraping and trim repainting required after three kids howling with laughter ripped duct tape from their doors. Or the niggling thought that perhaps partially disabling their exits for a night might have been not quite super safe. But all\u2019s well that ends well and we got a precious family memory out of it too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">This morning when I got up and headed to the kitchen to make coffee, I couldn\u2019t find the kettle. As usual, it took a while for the penny to drop. Ohhhhhh, April 1st.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">I <\/span><span class=\"s2\">finally located it, camouflaged by the cozy we use to keep the bodum hot. I smiled, thinking \u201cof course he couldn\u2019t resist\u201d and feeling relieved that he had been gentle with his trick this year, and I had figured it out so easily. I should have known better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-3214 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/531bbd66-484b-4b62-b549-503b2a0555a5.jpeg?w=992\" alt=\"531BBD66-484B-4B62-B549-503B2A0555A5\" width=\"496\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\nWhen the kettle boiled I opened the drawer to grab the coffee, and discovered that, as usual, he wasn\u2019t quite done with pulling my leg. My morning scavenger hunt ended, as so many hunts do, right back where I started. How did he know that when I saw his first note, I\u2019d head off on that wild goose chase, rather than opening the drawer to its full extent to find the coffee canister hiding at the very back? By the time I had the coffee brewing I was giggling hard.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">And how did he know that I would next grab my phone, to take some shots so I could share? It took a little bit to get my phone out of the case it sat in backwards, so I could use it. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"color:var(--color-text);\">I wonder if he\u2019s done yet?\u201d I thought. Again as usual, I will spend the rest of the morning warily living my usual routine, waiting for the other shoe to drop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Well, I did marry him because he made me laugh. And forty years later, I\u2019m still chuckling. <\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u2764\ufe0f<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> Happy April Fool\u2019s everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3215\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2b7d2bf3-d4ec-417d-b2e2-2a8835a0f1ad.jpeg\" alt=\"2B7D2BF3-D4EC-417D-B2E2-2A8835A0F1AD\" width=\"2416\" height=\"1960\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google may have cancelled April Fools\u2019 Day, but my silly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-life","category-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}