Easter Monday, 06 April, 2015. -( -18°C / 0°F with Sparkly snow and ice in the trees @ 8:00 am )-
I’ve seen more spectacular visions of sunlight hitting ice and snow on the branches of trees, but Eek! I’m not used to 5 and 10 centimeters / 2 to 4 inches of snow at this time of the year. Global Warming? Climate Change? Or Mother Nature fighting back against a species that threatens all life on Earth? (Us?) But it is pretty.
— We had +56°F / +13°C weather on Good Friday. I watched a documentary on how many fish and how much other ocean life is disappearing from our oceans and remembered Edgar Cayce explaining that the dinosaurs had to go because they threatened all other life on the planet, and when a species or group of species threatens all other life on a planet – it has to go – & that triggers an extinction event. Life insurance ain’t gonna help ya, dud, I mean ‘dude’, or maybe I do mean ‘dud’-
I haven’t shoveled since the last couple inches of snow fell, on – um – Friday into Saturday? First it looked like it might be a rain event. Then it looked like it would not amount to anything ‘worth writing home about’. Then it looked like we might get the 8 inches / 20 cm that had been predicted- But no- it rapidly gave up and left us with a false sense of security that we just might have a nice warm spring in a couple days. Then, on mid afternoon on Sunday / Easter Sunday we were pelted with maybe ten minutes of what looked like a genunine blizzard which, instead of dumping a foot of snow on us, just kind of yawned and wandered off into the depths of questionable memories, feeling like, ‘hey – did that really happen?’ – Shrug –
— I have an insistant orange cat threatening to tear down the office door if I don’t stop everything and feed him right now. I’ll be back-
Not my prettiest photo – This was taken from inside our porch. The interesting shapes on the lower left are chunks of ice we pulled down from the roof on Friday, covered with a little bit of snow. The plastic is still up on the inside of the windows and has trapped moisture here and there, or just made other spots blurry. But almost all of the should-be-horizontal awning part of the lawn swing is visible out there, showing off its lack of horizontal-ness. I think the bar that the awning has pivoted on is about five feet or more above the ground. There is at least three and a half to four feet of snow out there covering most of the ground.
— So, the cats have been fed, the dog has been out and back in, he lasted about two minutes before he began complaining that he wanted back in, which did not give me enough time to fill his bowl with ‘dry food’ after making sure he had pleanty of clean wet water. Then the cats had to pace back and forth and remind me that I could be shredded for less of a crime against cat-kind than taking too long to feed the cats and give them their favourite treats.
— Did I tell you that Easter Monday is a Holiday up here? Tell the cats I deserve a day off, see how far we can get with that one.
~~~~~ Jim
