The first day of spring! No wait, might still be winter

[oddmonster]

Because ain't no winter like a late Vermont winter
'cause a late Vermont winter don't stop.

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[cassandraterra]

Yeah. The next few days winter comes back. Do. Not. Like. I hope it doesn't snow. :(

[oddmonster]

Namaste. I sympathize with your desire for a lack of snow while celebrating the gentle snowfall outside. :)

[valis2]

The pond is still frozen over, and we're supposed to get some cold weather over the weekend, too. I still hold out hope that spring will show up. I'm getting anxious for my sweet turtles...

[oddmonster]

Spring will get here eventually. I'm just getting a kick out of finally having a winter that demands worship and makes people kinda nervous. It's my kind of winter :)

[mab_browne]

That's... vaguely terrifying to someone who lives in a temperate zone

[oddmonster]

I swear I feel the same way reading about the geology underlying your island paradise home. I can't understand how y'all can stand the suspense :D

[birdgirl_1107]

Why do I get such a kick out of the fact that the Coast Guard patrols lakes? But they must get so sick of rescuing morons from the consequences of their own idiocy.

Still winter here as well, although the massive 2-foot thick ice build-up on my roof/gutters is gone. It came crashing down all of a piece yesterday afternoon. I should take pictures of the wreckage. It's an impressive testimony to just how poorly our attic is insulated. ;)

[oddmonster]

Ikr? It took me awhile to get used to seeing Coast Guard boats on the lake, but when you realize how honking huge this lake is (nickname: The Fifth Great Lake) then it starts to make sense. But yeah, coming from a place where the choices were ocean or a wienie little reservoir that dried to mud every summer, I spent quite a while being ver' puzzled.

I am in favor of more photos in everyone's journals. I find them ever so fascinating :)

[birdgirl_1107]

I am really sorry I didn't get up to my Great Lake (Huron) this winter. Apparently for the first time in, like, forever - or at least my lifetime - it was frozen as far out as the eye could see.

But, um, *fidgets diffidently* shouldn't Champlain's nickname be The Sixth Great Lake? Last time I checked *counts on fingers to be sure* there already were five. ;)

[oddmonster]

Bahahahahaha! My apologies for trying to count the Great Lakes after too much strong green tea.

[little_tristan]

That's an amazing amount of ice! Does the sun shine over there at all, or are we hogging it? If only it could be boxed and shipped, I'd send you a sunny day.

Should I send you Fire Island Pines? It's sunny and beautiful, and if you don't want to think too much about it, you can skip the text. It's just a few pages at the beginning.

[oddmonster]

Amusingly, there is sunshine today, which is making everyone want to run outside, right up until they actually do run outside and discover it's 13 F. The sun is lying!

I have Fire Island Pines here, although I'm still enjoying my snow and ice books. I did read a book over the weekend where the spring in Texas is described as hot and muggy enough for orchids and alligators. I didn't necessarily think Texas was at all like that, but my experience of it has been very limited.

Have a sunny bunny

[little_tristan]

Lying weather is the worst. I've long maintained that January is 60 days long and February is a lie to fool us into thinking that it won't last forever. Why, some years I've seen January run well into March.

I didn't know if you had Fire Island Pines. I was looking at it the other day, just flipping through, and suddenly got to page 98, the two photos on the bottom of the page, and realized why it's art. Study those two for a minute, compare and contrast, consider the time elapsed between them. It's a beautiful thing.

Texas is so huge that it can do a lot of things, weatherwise. Parts of it are practically Arizona, while other parts are practically Louisiana. The boys used to go out in swamps and catch water moccasins. For some reason.