Last year we had about two weeks of winter, in January. This year we had a little more wintry weather, but no snow until February, and I couldn’t even help shovel because of my wrist. Which is healing, but slower than I’d like. And it was really just one snow, which came the Wednesday before … [Read more…]
April really is the cruellest month this year. The rains came on election day, Tuesday. I watched it just sheeting down from the windows of the polling place. It changed to snow just as I was leaving. It was wet slushy stuff, and made it very hard to see when driving. And also hard to … [Read more…]
Weird winter weather continues. Last Thursday, after the temps had been in the 50s, in other words, completely unseasonable for February, we got rain and wind in Madison and a tornado to the southeast. One of the tornadoes touched down maybe a 10 minute drive from my CSA farm. I emailed them and they said … [Read more…]
So like I said we went to Chicago overnight from Feb 1 to Groundhogs Day, and I am also seriously questioning the groundhogs’ verdict that we will have an early spring, since we’ve only had two weeks of winter so far, plus it’s still F**king February, for Pete’s sake. We’re nowhere near the vernal equinox, … [Read more…]
Neither Punxsutawney Phil nor Jimmy the Groundhog saw their shadows today, so they’re predicting an early spring. But we haven’t even really had winter yet. Remember it was 50° and misty and rainy on Christmas Eve and Christmas, and we did have a few bits of snow here and there. Then we had the big … [Read more…]
The weather in Denver quickly changed. On Saturday it was almost 70 when we were hiking in Boulder, and by the time we got up Sunday there was snow – an inch or two on the ground, and it was cold, in the 20s. Saturday after our hike we ate at Centro. I still have … [Read more…]
The lovely and talented Lisa Marine said on Facebook that it was a “eating-my-salad-with-a-spoon kind of Monday”, and also a “took-my-umbrella-home-from-work-on-Friday-wall-of-water-rainstorm-on-Monday” kind of Monday. For me it was the firedrill 10 minutes after I got to work early to get ready for my 2:30 class kind of Monday, and, in that 2:30 class, Killed the … [Read more…]