Haiku for every day of April 2023
April 1
Marg’ret loves this day
But are any foolers left?
Grandma Dot was one
April 2
Anytime, … where – in
The great eternal movie
We say YES with joy
April 3
Hundred year old day
Jack, Aly and now Miles
Canes, crutches and beards
April 4
Zoom meeting with friends
Share stories of Holy Week
Glad to pray today
April 5
Chess club! Miles can
Play his friends and older kids
Yeah! He wins some games
April 6
Andi’s birthday day
All six of us together
First party this week
April 7
Sleepover – the boys
Watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Till they got too scared (?)
April 8
They slept in the tent
Till 5:30 – what the heck?
Breakfast before dawn
April 9
Easter story of
The second fire – Jesus
Loves Peter back home (John 21)
April 10
Some days are like this
Jasper won’t let go of Mom
Cries for a long time
April 11
Diabetic eyes
Look good. My newly cleaned teeth?
Zero cavities
April 12
Jasper and Grandpa
Drive to dump, eating sugar
And keeping secrets
April 13
Game night at Ices
Marg taught them all to play Spoons
Ray’s Hawaiian nuts
April 14 (really Sat 15th)
Casey – Taco Bell
Here in Tyler submarine
Mom, Dad, Skunk, Badger (book by Amy Timberlake)
April 15
Little Rock deluge
Freeways – safe until they aren’t
Endless – grip the wheel!
April 16
Woke to Joplin dawn
Sunshine for the last leg home
No hail marks on car
April 17
Monday at 7
Rons for oil, rear brake pads
By Sam and Cujo (Sam’s dog)
April 18
So many good friends
People need You, this I know
Let us pray, trust, rest
April 19
Our freezer’s dying?
Plus the furnace needs some work
Marc’s been our hero
April 20
Jim, Mary, Amy …
Take Jack, Aly for their drives
Mimosa, Macy
April 21
What doesn’t Jack know?
Scholastic Bowl – so much fun
Watch the good brains run
April 22
Sailing through Ozarks
Missouri’s tabernacle
Those lakes, hills, green trees
April 23
Siloam Springs blue skies
Heart and hands, Christ above all
Lizzie’s college life
April 24
Dr. Deem called me
Aortal valve stenosis
Severe – so what’s next?
April 25
Furnace blower fixed
Freezer officially dead,
New lawn mower
April 26
Jasper has questions:
What is an outing, Grandpa?
T J Maxx! For toys!
April 27
In our lives there are
Many doctors, they choose life
We must choose life too
April 28
Liu, Deem, Mustafa,
Chang … read tests, give us the news
Help us if they can
April 29
Wedding bells ringing
George and Anne and all their friends
Come to send them off!
April 30
we end this month with
coughs, Lasix … waiting not just
for Spring, but our health
