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BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!

23 Apr 03 - 08:25 AM (#938382)
Subject: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: MMario

Whatever happenned to global warming? I am sick and tired of waking up to SNOW! BLEECHH!

I am ready - more then ready - for Spring.


23 Apr 03 - 09:55 AM (#938455)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: wysiwyg

We're a little flakey here too, but I think it's a mirage.

~S~


23 Apr 03 - 09:57 AM (#938458)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Amos

You guys are kidding, right? I mean...it's April, guys!! The lilies are bloomin' and the swallows are revving up their engines. Cmawn!


A-who-wears-shorts-now...


23 Apr 03 - 09:59 AM (#938460)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: MMario

Wish I were...(in Carrfickfergus...oops! I mean kidding)

The poor little daffy-down-dillies in their yellow gowns were suffering a severe case of g*d's dandruff this am. Not much - but it's cold, and there *is* snow falling and blowing.


23 Apr 03 - 10:06 AM (#938470)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: wysiwyg

Hardi actually came back in the house this AM after leaving for work, just to ask me if I could see it too. Dang, I shouldda told him NO!

~Susan


23 Apr 03 - 10:59 AM (#938523)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Sorcha

LOL! So sorry, Mario. It's finally turned to rain here.......


23 Apr 03 - 12:15 PM (#938572)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Stilly River Sage

But I've been mowing the lawn every week for the last month. Seems impossible to have snow anywhere but in the northern tier of states--but wait, New York IS in that northern tier, isn't it? (It snows 12 months of the year in Washington in some parts of it, though mostly higher elevations only from June through September).

SRS


23 Apr 03 - 02:10 PM (#938655)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Burke

On Monday, when I heard the forecast of 1-2" of snow today, I opined that they meant the Tug Hill Plateau. That's an area off Lake Ontario just west of the Adirondack that gets LOTS of snow.

I was WRONG!! This is the Mohawk Valley and it hasn't even had the decency to melt right away. The trees are covered with beautiful, wet, sticky snow. The kind that even sticks to the sides of the trunks.

I'm sick of it!


23 Apr 03 - 02:34 PM (#938671)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Liz the Squeak

And here were us Brits basking in delightfully warm sunshine all day yesterday and today..... make you wish you were a colony again?

(Joking!!)

LTS


23 Apr 03 - 03:12 PM (#938695)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Mudlark

Oy...snow! Makes me feel like a real wimp for complaining about the 15 mph wind chill factor when it's 62 outside. My little cuke and squash plants out in the garden look like they need mufflers, but they're hanging in there so far...

Take heart, Mario...and don't let Mom Nature know her little joke irritates you...ignore her and maybe she'll let up and give spring a chance.


23 Apr 03 - 03:40 PM (#938714)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Rapparee

"All we are saying
Is give Spring a chance...."

Where are the warm Zephyrs of late April and May? It was 34 F here near Cincinnati this morning! Snow is simply NOT permitted -- I have to drive through the Rockies next week!


23 Apr 03 - 06:03 PM (#938805)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: gnu

GOSH the sunburn on my bald head feels good !!!! We may have snow (squalls) again but it'll just be a treat to sooth my sunburn !!! C'mon spring !!!


23 Apr 03 - 06:11 PM (#938808)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Rapparee

The radio said:

"...frost warning tonight..."

What I said isn't for polite company.


23 Apr 03 - 06:17 PM (#938812)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: SINSULL

i came home from work and had to turn the heat on. My sister in BUFFALO is bragging about her daffodils and I am freezing my butt off in Portland. Cold Cold Cold!!!!!


23 Apr 03 - 06:42 PM (#938831)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Giac

Is this a bad time to note that my tomato and pepper plants are looking great? Some of the Cayenes have little buds on them. My lavender Iris are lovely, as are my petunias and pansies. And, my lone rose bush has near-bursting buds.

Well, take heart, when you are basking in lovely weather, we will be sweltering down here.

~;o) - Mary


23 Apr 03 - 07:41 PM (#938873)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Little Hawk

Unbelievable isn't it? The nasty little white things were drifting down again last night, but not enough of them to last till morning. Ugh. The dachshunds were not pleased, and were coerced to go outdoors only with some difficulty. They are fair weather friends.

- LH


23 Apr 03 - 11:47 PM (#938992)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: wysiwyg

She's talking about her pansies, and in public! Oh my!

~Susan


24 Apr 03 - 02:06 AM (#939033)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Peg

we're getting a bit of snow tomorrow, too.

I did some work on the garden last week (I have a plot in the Fenway Victory Gardens), got some seeds in and helped friends with a big yard get all the leaves from last fall raked. Gardening is frustrating this year but some of my fellow Fens gardeners are clinging to it stubbornly...it's nice to see the spring stuff coming up but I fear the cold will damage some flowers and maybe some fruit crops.

And something is eating my hyacinths!


24 Apr 03 - 06:31 AM (#939097)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

Two inches on the ground and it's still falling.... and I had just been celebrating the death knell of the glacier in my side yard. UGH!

T.S. Eliot is right. April really is the cruelest month.


24 Apr 03 - 09:14 AM (#939148)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: wysiwyg

Better today?

~S~


24 Apr 03 - 09:17 AM (#939149)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: MMario

sunny at least. cold. ice on all our ponds...


24 Apr 03 - 09:18 AM (#939151)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: wysiwyg

Ah, it's early! Have a little faith! I hear boidies singing!

~S~


24 Apr 03 - 05:09 PM (#939491)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Liz the Squeak

Of course the Daschunds are fair weather folk - if your gazongas were only 6 inches off the ground, YOU'D think twice about going in the snow.....

Jamuary brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.
February's ice and sleet, freeze the toes right off your feet.
March does something I can't remember.....
April brings the sweet spring showers, on and on for hours and hours.
Farmers fear unkindly May, frost by night and hail by day.
June it rains and never stops, 30 days and spoils the crops.

and so on.....

LTS


24 Apr 03 - 06:42 PM (#939554)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: MMario

okay - this is a little ridiculous. Skarpi - from ICELAND - PM'd me to say that it had been spring for six weeks already!!!!!

sheesh...


24 Apr 03 - 06:47 PM (#939559)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Giac

Well, gee, MMario, I hope you knitted an extra shawl or two -- for yourself. **Grin**


24 Apr 03 - 08:26 PM (#939618)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: artbrooks

Snow? Haven't seen any to speak of since a year ago February...the honeysuckle outside my window is about to bloom....


24 Apr 03 - 10:00 PM (#939662)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Hrothgar

It snowed about two hundred miles from here a couple of years ago.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ..................


25 Apr 03 - 06:49 PM (#940311)
Subject: PY Spring '03
From: wysiwyg

We filled the sitting pool today; it wintered over just fine left mostly filled and covered; seems to be holding water fine and as soon as the night freezes stop we'll hook up the filter. This is the earliest we've ever had it going, because in previous years we've not left it in place, filled, and it was great to fill it knowing that spring melt had filled the well, and that we were not risking going dry..... can't wait for it to warm up enough to get in there and work out.

Spent the rest of the fine part of the day taking off the plow blade and putting on the mower deck, with Hardi doing the hard parts and me playing OR nurse with tools and retractors. Damn boidies were awfu' loud too. Greenest first growth of grass, warm sun in a cool breeze, and sweet smells.... periodically punctuated with priestly prayers over scraped knuckles.

~Susan


10 May 03 - 08:12 AM (#949840)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: gnu

SON-OF-A-PUP. This ain't that unusual for May, but it ain't normal neither ! I had the AC on in the truck just a few days ago. I mowed the lawn day before yesterday. The tulips are closed up and they'll be on the ground shortly. I can see a canary in my backyard maple and I swear it's frowning.


10 May 03 - 11:52 AM (#949965)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Charley Noble

How about the weather report from OZ's Blue Mountains?

Charley Noble


10 May 03 - 12:24 PM (#949984)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: gnu

How so ?


10 May 03 - 03:09 PM (#950073)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Joe Offer

We're 2,300 feet above sea level in the Sierra foothills in California, and we have beautiful spring weather - a littler wetter than usual, but gorgeous. Thursday, we took the dogs to the vet, who's at about 3,000 feet - and it was snowing that white, sticky stuff that sticks to all the trees. If was nice to take a 15-minute drive back into winter - and then to drive home again to spring.
-Joe Offer-


10 May 03 - 09:22 PM (#950248)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: gnu

My gosh it must be beautiful there. Round here, mountains are 2000' and above, but not by much, ie, it's flat. I go off all day and never venture + or - 100'.... seriously. But, it is beautiful in it's own way.


11 May 03 - 07:31 AM (#950416)
Subject: RE: BS: SNOW-AGAIN!!!!!
From: Hrothgar

It will be getting bloody cold down in the Blue Mountains, Charley, but those people live in New South Wales, so who cares?

:-)