What's Happening in the Koi World?

We've been buzzing with activity lately, many things going on.

• The All Japan Young Koi Show is coming up this weekend, so the boss is busy with the show area set up.
• All of our ponds down in the low lands have been prepped for releasing koi into them. The predator netting is up & the auto feeders are set. Most of the snow in the mountains has melted by now too, so we've also been working on those ponds
• We've already started to release koi into the ponds, but so far only 3 ponds have had koi put in them.
• Building of the new koi house is well under way, they poured the concrete base the other day. Last year we couldn't pull one of the ponds because we had no place to bring the koi in for winter. We made too many koi for the amount of space we have, so we're building a new green house.

Thats pretty much whats been going on lately, on top of orders of koi being sent out in the mornings & nights.

Fooled

Let me start off by saying that Japan is a country that doesn't really joke around. Sometimes it seems like jokes only have there place with comedians, and don't really fit into daily life. Yes, this is a very sad, sad, depressing country.

That being said, I kinda forgot about April Fools this year, big mistake. Its not like Japan doesn't have it either, its just not widely celebrated. Last year I tried to get somebody in Marudo's family to call my family and tell them I was badly injured in a car crash, but nobody saw the humor in it*.

*Or am I just weird?

Anyways... my family got me good this year. Here is how it played out:

March 31; 22:30 PM-
I haven't talked to my family in a while so I decide to call to see whats going on.
Nothing out of the ordinary, same old, same old. Dad tells me how the koi & hockey team are doing, and Mom goes on the usual rant about the cats or another bird flying into the window. Talked to my younger brother too, older brother wasn't up yet (like always). Nothing suspicious at all.


April 1; 06:30 AM-
Too busy making breakfast I don't even realize what day it is.

09:00 AM-
Too busy thinking about what needs to get done today to notice what day it is.

20:00 PM-
Busy packing a shipment of fish, still haven't remembered what day it is.

23:00 PM-
Return home from loading the boxes of fish on the cargo truck. Mom (Japanese one) tells me my parents called. Which I thought was kinda strange cause I had just talked to them the night before. So I call them to see whats up.

Me: Hey, you called?
Mom: Yeah, hold on, let me get dad.*
Dad: Hello.
Me: You sound tired, whats up?
Dad: I've been up since 4 AM, the alarm system in the koi house went off.
Me: What tripped it?
Dad: We got quite a bit snow last night.** The roof over the back section of the koi house collapsed under the weight, crashing down onto all the tosai. (that were shipped a little over a week before)
Me: What WHAT WHAT! Are the fish okay.
Dad: Their hanging in there, I rigged up a generator, so all the pumps are running.
Me: (In Shock) Woah... what are you going to do.
Dad: (Suddenly Sounding Much More Uppidty Mood, Breaks Out Laughing) APRIL FOOLS!
Me: (Remembering What Day It Is) Shit, you Jackass, I forgot what day it was! (Followed By Profuse Swearing & Death Threats)

I was fooled! Now I need to think of something better to get revenge with!

*I thought it was kinda strange that my Mom gave up the phone without trying to talk my ear off first.

**The only true sentence my Dad said in the entire conversation.