In a recent post I claimed that I was a fun guy. A friend agreed. I think she did. April fool?

When I was a kid, I loved the jokes and tricks of April Fools' Day. One of my customers on my newspaper route helped me make a finger bandage out of gauze, a chewing gum package, and a nail that was bent to go around my finger. When you put all the parts together, it looked like I had a nail piercing my bandaged finger. Of course, I'm a fun guy, and put on my best act to convince others I was wounded. And then we would all laugh together.

About the same time, Terry Noland had a song "There Was a Fungus Among Us" that I remember hearing on WLS, Chicago. You can find it on YouTube. It's not great music, but stuck in my mind, along with other non sequitur phrases like "static in the attic". Sometimes I wish I had more noble memories stuck in my brain.

This image of fungus caught my attention and of those walking with me. I do not know what it is. Do you know that there are 1.5 to 5 million species of fungi with only 5% identified? More than I knew, there is fungus among us. Really. And that's no April Fool.