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're moving to Austria?! Wow! I agree that Vienna will be very cool. :)

Is this a long-term move or just something temporary? (Nosy! :o) )

It is finally warm here. Bobby is outside right now raking up what he calls the "winter salad": all the leaves, sticks, rocks, and bits of firewood that make their ways into the yard over the winter. (With the help of two Golden Retrievers, I should add.) But the winter was bitter and disappointing for snowfall. I'm glad that yours seems to have treated you better, at least in the snowfall department. And ending at a reasonable date.

When I'm in the mood to compare the drastic differences in world weather, I talk to angelica_ramses ... she lives in Argentina, so when we're complaining of the bitter cold, she's complaining of the oppressive heat! :)

I still haven't shaved my legs ... :D

[atanwende.livejournal.com]

Is this a long-term move or just something temporary? (Nosy! :o) )

Haha, you're allowed to be nosy! (I am, too...).

I'm going to work there in a museum connected to a rather big Benedictine abbey for five months (no, I'm not taking vows ;P). After that I will have to find something new since the job is limited to those five months and the museum closes during winter anyway. But who knows, probably one of the contemporary artists working for the museum is going to declare me his personal assistant, buy me an apartment in Vienna and... well, that's most likely not going to happen anyway. ;P

I don't know yet if I'm going to stay in Austria or go back to Germany (or move somewhere else entirely?) after that time. I'll have to see. But I hope bet it's going to be exciting.

Yea, our winter was okay, I guess. There could have been a bit more sunshine in the end but all in all it was quite bearable. Though I could have lived without the experience of getting chilblains... ;) (Just FYI, that was stupid story of me wearing to many socks in my boots so that the air couldn't circulate well enough and... yes. It wasn't really bad, just... stupid.)

Our cats love "helping" in the garden, too, by the way! :-D

And well, I believe you that weather differences between the Northern and Southern hemisphere are "a tad" more drastic than those between continents. ;) But anyway, I always thought it was interesting how different the weather can be in places that are similarly geographically positioned. Like the fact that New York City and Naples are actually positioned at the same parallel but have really different climates (it's probably obvious that I love maps a lot, for what reason ever!).

And there's nothing wrong with not having shaved yet. I actually tend to keep them un-shaved in winter because it keeps my legs warm. :D