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06 April 2008

Snow! Lots and lots of snow!

post by: essexjan at: 03:40 | 20 comments

Goodness me it's April....

posted by gomichild 06 April | 03:58

Bailey hates snow.

posted by essexjan 06 April | 03:58

Yeah. Normally I'd be all happy and wooooo, but today is meant to be my last run before next week's marathon. Running in lots of snow is not fun.

posted by TheDonF 06 April | 04:03

Snow! (Not dressed yet, so this is the view from my window.)

posted by chrismear 06 April | 04:10

I can't find the camera, but it is glorious here. But - April! And it's the first real snow we've had this (winter?)!

That's a gorgeous pic of Bailey, ej.

posted by goo 06 April | 04:20

I might at last get a chance to wear my snow boots tomorrow on my trudge to the station.

posted by essexjan 06 April | 05:07

The view from my front door:
≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by cillit bang 06 April | 05:32

No snow here :(

posted by matthewr 06 April | 07:13

Yayyyyy, snow dayyyyyy!

posted by hadjiboy 06 April | 08:02

I cannot share your joy in the white stuff. We had it on the ground here in the Chicago suburbs from December through the end of March. Yesterday it went up to 62 degrees and there are still ugly black piles of it where it was plowed. If it's a novelty for you then it's fun. It lost its charm for me quite some time ago.

Why not make a snowball or two and stick it in your freezer, to bring out in July - I used to do that as a kid. My mom was remarkably tolerant. Store in a plastic zip top bag.

posted by Kangaroo 06 April | 08:13

Kangaroo, we were clobbered with the stuff, too. Although you get "lake effect" snow up there -- did you get any real blizzards this year?

Snow's beautiful when it's fresh, new, and NOT APRIL.

posted by lleachie 06 April | 10:15

No snow here but lot and lots of pot holes in the roads as a reminder of the crappy winter just ended.

posted by octothorpe 06 April | 10:23

I am making up for having just run 11 miles in falling snow, having some fuckwad teen aiming snowballs at me and a 4×4 drenching me in ice-cold water by having a rather large mug of Green And Blacks hot chocolate.

posted by TheDonF 06 April | 11:26

i like how everyone there on my flickr posted snow.

F, you have to set us up with a live cam to watch the marathon and your bloody nipples.
i've been carbo loading for you, so you better run all this pasta off me.

posted by ethylene 06 April | 12:18

We've had quite enough of it in Toronto this year, so I am happy to see the sun these last few days! I am not that happy to see the gross untended mush that is my front lawn that has been under the snow. Mushy.

posted by typewriter 06 April | 14:32

We probably have a foot in the front yard right now, and it's still snowing. It makes me want to go sledding.

posted by rhapsodie 06 April | 14:50

We really had no snow to speak of this winter. Maybe only once did the trucks have to come around, and even then it was just to spread sand and not even plow. I miss snow.

But yesterday was around 60 degrees, sunny, pleasant. My hyacinths are blooming, my daffodils are waving in the breeze, and my flower garden is growing fast. I'm in a welcoming spring mode.

posted by redvixen 06 April | 15:29

Mmmm, pasta. I ate too much pasta last night. The coming week is going to be carb-city. After that I'll be in mourning for bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and more. *sigh* I won't miss the bloody nipples, though. Even if they don't bleed, in this weather they still hurt in the shower after a long run.

This is a photo of my parents' garden. The setting sun somehow highlighted certain trees, giving them an orange tinge:

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by TheDonF 06 April | 16:16

I'm sooo loving this.

Sisi, Claire and I got up at 7am to have a snowball fight in the grounds of the Health Centre up the road. We took black rubbish bags to do some culoSki. Fantastic way to start the day. (But all I'm posting here is the sedate view of the deck.)
SNOW! Whooo-hoo!

posted by Wilder 07 April | 04:06

Heh. English needs a word like culoski. 'Arse-skiing' anyone?

posted by matthewr 07 April | 05:57

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