It's the start of a new week and the last week of April. The leaves on the trees have really started coming back this past week and will no doubt continue to do so as May quickly approaches. The grass has already started growing with a vengeance.

Ridiculous item of the day: It's not enough that we humans have to litter but now we are sharing our litter, along with nasty habits, with our furry friends. A male chimpanzee at the Bloemfontein zoo in South Africa has taken up smoking. Baby chimps are able to mimic adults and this chimp, Charlie, has learned to bum cigarettes off of visitors. He has also taken up drinking soda thanks to visitors tossing soda cans into his cage. As a result three of his teeth have gone bad and not only that but he's learned to hide the cigarettes when staff come around. Talk about juvenile behavior. Pretty soon he'll figure a way out of his cage and inevitably miss his curfew. And just wait until he learns to talk.

That's all for now,

paul