It's spring again here in Southeatern New Brunswick, Canada. For the sixth time. Bee... yesterday, the Maineiacs sent us 8" of snow first, before the freezing rain and rain and wind. Winter is expected to return by noon today.

I haven't burnt a stick of wood yet this year. I only have two cords because I couldn't get any new wood in due to illness, so I am keeping it in emergency reserve until at least mid-March. But, the old wood stove will roar then because the power rates went up 13% last fall.

Bad luck or good luck.... I realized on Dec 1 that I was gonna HAVE to go under the knife and wouldn't be able to do the snow thing, so I called a guy with a tractor mounted snowblower at 8AM on Dec 2. He was driving past my house at that moment. Five minutes later, I wrote a cheque. At 5PM it snowed. And it's been snowing ever since, except for the half dozen times we had freezing rain, ice pellets and rain. Oh, and, of course, when it was close to -30C. What a MESS!! On some back streets, small cars are scraping the undercarriage between the ice ruts.

Spring me arse!

PS... Art... piss off. Ah, that goes for you, too, Amos. Even if you don't post here, I know what you're thinking.