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Damn rodents?! We love our groundhogs!
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Seeing a pattern and knowing about the storm warning, I wondered: who's been left holding the fort? A young woman Analyst/Researcher with a Chinese name? Sounds promising. I tried her extension. Sure enough. Not that she knew Mel, but at least she answered her phone.
Now I hear freezing rain against my windows.
I wish spring would hurry up and get here.
Sunday I discovered a leak in my newly redone roof. Even at -30C three feet of snow makes a great insulator, the snow was melting at the bottom and leaking through my newly refinished roof. Shoveled all the snow off into a big pile. Pile is now frozen solid and oil delivery can't get to the oil tank. Time to get the pick axe to dig a path to the tank. What global warming.
On the other hand, our freezing rain is bad too.
On the bright side, I usually manage to start cleaning up some of my garden beds during the last week of March. It sounds good right now.
I love this wether.
We did get the storm last evening but in the end, it didn't amount to too much -- some snow that turned to sleet and then rain around 10 p.m. It's been dripping everywhere all day and it's mostly all melted. I think we were lucky to get off quite easily and lucky to be moderated by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
The storm has already started -- it probably won't be too bad here in Halifax, although who can say? We're expecting snow, ice pellets, freezing rain and rain -- but it's expected to be fairly major in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
[ 16 March 2007: Message edited by: Sharon ]
Today was a generally rotten day. Norton AV infected this machine with a trojan called ccCommon (you can google it) and I've spent a day trying to get rid of it. Still haven't fixed all the damage yet. Early this morning I had a bad fall on the ice behind the house and my leg is stiff and swoolen to twice its normal size. [img]frown.gif" border="0[/img]
Hmm. Didn't I tell you a long time ago about how the "string" in string theory is vibrating energy, and that this energy is irony?. In an universe whose fundamental building block is irony, one is asking for such mishaps if one goes by the name of Boom Boom.
Anywho. Crocii are blooming like mad here, maple trees are flowering, my lilac bush buds have opened to disclose the still tightly packed light green foliage inside, robins are feasting on worms, the blue bells will flower in the next day or so, and the daffodills are pushing up ferociously.
Spring, here in the Carolinian zone, has sprung.
Please.
I left for work this morning, and the skies looked a little grey, but it was quite warm out. For the last week or so, it's been hot, sticky and humid out.
So then, on the streetcar to work, it starts absolutely pouring, pitchforks down. It clears up just as I'm getting off. (I figure that's a sign. Of what, I don't know.)
Then, about 45 minutes later, I walk outside to another building to go to a meeting and it's FREEZING. At lunchtime, it's even more freezing! Coming home it was frigid! I wore a skirt, bare legs, birkenstocks, and a t-shirt!
I hate winter! Enough with the winter!