Thanks again to my wandering west coast brother, I know that today is "April Showers Day" and "National Jellybean Day."
I already knew that it is also "Earth Day." I did not know, until I looked it up, that the theme for "Earth Day 2026" is "Our Power, Our Planet" with an emphasis on collective action as well as individual everyday actions. At this point in our lives my wonder spouse and I are mainly focused on our individual actions. The only collective action we take part in is putting out our recycling bin every other week just like everyone else in the subdivision. We recycle, reuse, repurpose whenever we can. I'm also happy to report, as a bit of Earth Day trivia, that Fort Wayne has some of the cleanest, best tasting city water in the country.
"April Showers Day" fits right in with "Earth Day" except it should be days not day. We have had an abundance of April showers this month, which means that locally the earth was looking really good for "Earth Day" with lush green grass and blossoms and tiny green leaves on the trees. This morning the sky was a beautiful clear blue dotted with little puffy white clouds. This evening we had a thunder storm. I guess that was inevitable since we were celebrating "April Showers Day."
What I don't understand is why this is also "National Jellybean Day." While jellybeans are admittedly tasty, they can't be planted, grown or harvested. Perhaps they should have a separate day of their own or maybe they could share a day with marshmallows.