5 posts tagged “weather”
Had a fabulous time at the Mother-Son Magical Evening, and so did my date.
He is sweet enough to be looking forward to the day when Littlest Brother is old enough to come with us. Isn't that awesome?
Also, couldn't have asked for a better weekend over at The Cottage; the weather was unbelievable.
Spent too many hours at The Big Lake and let my poor kids get sunburned.
(BAD Mom! BAD!)
Pictures to follow, some other time. I'm just too tired.
I'm dreaming... of a whi-i-ite Easter -- !
Just like the ones I used to loathe!
Ahhh, Michigan weather! Toldya we weren't through with winter yet.
Mind you, it was 70 degrees (F) on Tuesday; we were in shorts and short-sleeve shirts, we're just so desperate for winter to be over. We grab at any inkling of sunlight and warmth. 70 degrees may not sound very warm to those of you in Florida or Arizona, but believe me, around here that's SUMMER weather! So that was Tuesday. Tuesday night a cold front blew in and the temp dropped about 35 degrees overnight. It's been hovering just above freezing all week. Last night it started to snow.
Here's the view from my front porch this morning:
Our church had a pre-Easter party for the kids today -- stories, crafts, and finally, a candy hunt outside on the lawn.
(The candy hunt is divided into two age ranges, so the littler kids have a chance. I stayed with Precious Princess and Littlest Brother in the Age 2 - 4 zone; Dear Husband went with Eldest Son to the Age 5 - 7 area. I couldn't be in two places at once so I only got Eldest Son's picture when it was all over.)
This next picture pretty much says it all:
Don't you just want to move here?
You think we'd be used to it, but by Friday everyone I saw was walking around with these variably dazed or hostile expressions, shaking their fists at the sky. It's almost worse when you get a teaser like Tuesday, sunny and 70 degrees. You're SO READY for that to be reality, and then the grim truth comes rushing back.
Hmpf.
Well, there's always chocolate!
Easter candy, anyone?
(Have a blessed Easter!)
;-)
It just seems that way.
I've come to the conclusion that I have SAD -- Seasonal Affective Disorder. It seems to be getting worse as I get older. When I was in college I neither noticed nor cared about going off Daylight Savings Time, or the number of sunless days in a row Michigan gets, or how long the snow lasts around here (well into April).
Every year since then it's gotten a little worse for me.
Along about February or March I just find myself completely bonkers and utterly unlovable. Everything's bad, and it's never going to get better. My children are annoying, my humor tends toward the bitter (to the extent it's detectable at all), and everybody else is an idiot.
In Michigan, we don't have spring. At least not as it's been described for me by people who grew up in other parts of the country. We have solid winter through the end of March. (Although, in one memorable year while I was in high school, we had one FREAK day of 80 degrees (Fahrenheit) in March -- we all went out onto the frozen lake in our shorts and T-shirts, and got sunburned -- the ice-fishing shacks off in the distance) (and no, I'm not kidding). We often have snowstorms well into April, though it usually doesn't stick on the ground then. In April, winter and summer fight a pitched battle; there is no in-between weather of what other people call "spring." It's either 70 degrees and sunny, or 30 degrees and sleeting. That's April.
Along about May, when it's clear that summer is going to win the war and winter, to go lick its wounds for five or six months, things start looking up for me.
When I win the lottery? -- I'm going to go to Florida, or maybe Arizona, and stay there for the entire MONTH of February. On second thought, March too.
But my camera didn't do it justice. The sparkles don't dance, and glow white-bright, and then glance off into a million-colored prismatic splendor.
Clearly, I need a tripod. But I'm not sure any camera really could capture the glory.
