Man, it is so gorgeous here! The plum trees are blooming even!

** runs away **

(BTGOG you can always crash at my place if you want.)

It's almost March. Which, in Missouri, should NOT mean 27 degrees and yet another snowstorm. Now, mind you, none of the snow is quite as bad as those years I lived in upstate New York, but the COLD! If it's not snowing, it's -10 windchill. This is Missouri, not Antarctica!

We had our February thaw. Yesterday. Usually it lasts more than four hours, thank you.

Am I doing a good enough job of whinging about our weather, BTGoG?

It's been windy down here too, BtGoG, but not too wet or cold. This lunchtime there was a windsurfer on Millwall Dock. The wind almost slammed him into the dock wall a couple of times. But when he was whizzing across the vast expanse of water he looked to be having a whole lot of fun.

And a grebe was carrying a chick on her back. A chick! In FEBRUARY! I hope she got home with her baby before the wind blew them away.

I was riding the train this morning before dawn, and a HUGE storm came up- when the train doors would open at some of the outdoor stations, water came spraying horizontally into the train. And the platforms are covered with a roof! It was crazy... thunder, lightning, intense wind. All the stations downtown are underground, and when I emerged to the surface, it was still raining (I had my umbrella!) but no more storm. Whew.

It's just been godawful dreary here today. Which is making me really want to go home and take a nap. But I've got to wait until 5. And I have to get gas in this crap weather too. Ughhhhh.

We were told to expect rain all day, but it's only drizzled. It's damned cold, though, that damp kind of cold that makes everyone grumpy. I'd like snow, simply because we really haven't had much and I like it. (Please, snowbunnies, don't hit me).

Sunny @ 60's in Central Coastal Califonium. Envy me!!!

This has been my winter: Windy, Rain, Grey, Fog. Windy, Cold, Windier. Grayer. Foggier. WINDYYYYY. Rain.
It has made me a bit loopy because for some reason, I can live 200 miles above the artic circle and not get depressed but cold windy gray winters without snow make me dye my hair some insane color just to get the color back in life. It's like a thick layer of gray. Plus, no snow makes the cold feel colder. And so does the damn wind.

Though everyone else around here say it's been mild (it has) so that explains the flowers suddenly blooming, the geese returning early and the hedgehogs waking up early only to meet a fauna without insects and starve to death (if it weren't for crazy folk like me who feed them).

I just cleared two driveways of 5" of wet, heavy snow. Thank God for snowblowers.

I can't really complain though, because last night was beautiful.

It is really, really hot right now.

(would love to be there in Glasgow with you Gracie:))

We are expecting sixteen inches (40 cm) of snow in the next 36 hours (1.5 days). Today I was up on the roof trying to get some of the four feet (1.22 meters) of snow off of it because 1) it's not my roof 2) my neighbor guy said "you better take care of that" in him ominous way. I'm not sure if it was oogy boogy talk or what, but I manhandled a too-heavy-for-me ladder around the house cutting through the three inches (7.62 cm) of ice crust on top and tried to get as much snow off it as I could without having it fall off and into the zillion (no metric equivalent) windows on the front porch. Also, I cut my face on a rake. Fortunately it was FROZEN (my face, the rake, this whole state) so it didn't hurt much. I drove home from work on the interstate at 35 miles per hour (56 km/hr). I bought extra soup at the store. It's about fifteen degrees here now. (-9 C)

That said, it's really lovely here when you don't have to battle the elements. I'm looking at photos of springtime.

40F +/- today in NYC...though snow is predicted over the weekend.