Will This Winter Ever End??

[dawn_felagund]

This morning, I woke up and there was snow on the ground. Snow! In April! In Maryland! Yes, I know we live in north-north Maryland now but still. Snow in April is ridiculous. Hasn't it ever heard the saying that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb? What the hell kind of lamb is this? A Monty Python killer lamb??

I know I'm not old enough to tell uphill-both-ways stories yet, but I don't ever remember snow in April.

This has been the longest winter that I can recall. It started the first week of November. I remember this well because our Halloween party was on 1 November, and we had a lot of people attending for our small house, so I wished very hard for a day warm and pleasant enough that many of them would want to go outside ... and I got it. 1 November was gorgeous! And, a few days later, temperatures dropped precipitously, and I felt as though I'd paid for that one perfect day. And it stayed cold and miserable, so much that Bobby and I were both expecting a white Thanksgiving. (Which we didn't get because, despite winter hanging around for five months, we had a record low snowfall. Double boo!)

I'm ready for winter to be done and over! I miss baring my arms in public and my legs below the knee! I really needed a long skirt and boots today, but I refuse to wear boots in April. So my legs were cold. Oh flippin' well.

(angelica_ramses, has the miserable summer stuck so adamantly in your part of the world as miserable winter has here? I do hope not!)

On a positive note, it is Bobby's birthday today. The old man is 28. Because we are planning a trip to Ireland this summer, he has refused all birthday gifts from me to save for the trip. We did, however, have an excellent dinner at the Thai restaurant in Westminster. And I'm off for the rest of the week, and Bobby is on Spring Break, so we can stay up together until the small hours of the morning. We're hoping for weather pleasant enough tomorrow to inaugurate the hiking season.

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[dawn_felagund]

You might be working in Ireland this summer?! We're going at the end of June; we're meeting hrymfaxe too for a weekend. And ford_of_bruinen is in Cork, I think, though I haven't had a chance to talk to her of meeting up ... but now I have this grand vision of all these Silmgeeks meeting at once! Poor Bobby ... ;)

And as long as Maryland continues to claim to be a "southern state," then I find it unseemly to have snow in April. ;)

[tarion-anarore.livejournal.com]

Possibly! I might be working ANYWHERE. I am a bit torn between wanting to live at home and work (save money for grad school) and going abroad to work. But if I AM in Ireland...well, it certainly would be great to meet! And Bobby doesn't have to worry, we can talk about, um, jousting?

Speaking of, are you still looking at buying a horse? I know times is hard, but if you were, there are quite a few nice horses for sale...Anyway. XD

I agree! Snow in April is unacceptable even to me! (Well, I'll accept it if it means school closures. ;) We never had a proper winter - when I moved back up in January, it was 60-something, and I had to change into a T-shirt. Then cold-warm-cold-warm cycle since...though getting progressively warmer on the "warm" days...Still say you ought to visit me here! We've got nice hiking...;)