#$@$!! New England Weather!!

[LynzM]

SNOW?!?!?! HRRRMPH! :mad:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. It won't snow

freezing rain maybe! :P

[LynzM]

3. Fingers crossed, dude.

For neither! Freezing rain. MEH!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

14. I'll be in Florida anyway

:hi:

[LynzM]

15. Lucky you!

Have a great trip! "Business or pleasure?" :)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

16. Pleasure

:-)

[midnight armadillo]

2. There's a benefit

It keeps the Floridians away ;-)

[LynzM]

4. LOL

Good point :P

[stellanoir]

5. Oh sweetie

don't despair. March and April are typically riddled with the infernal spring tease.

I'm from RI and remember a spring when I was really little when Easter happened at the end of April and we made an 8 foot snow bunny.

On the other hand, the last two years have had no spring whatsoever. That's what I miss the most. The gradual transitions.

Aaaaaand I've just finished clearing 2 of my 3 gardens and exposing all of those wondrous "volunteers." A snow storm at this point would be totally disastrous.

So let's vibe it away. Okay?

[LynzM]

7. Ok, sounds good.

No snow, no snow, no snow, no snow... is it working yet?? :bounce:

[stellanoir]

9. "I'm melting. . .

mehhhlting. . . ."

[LynzM]

10. LOL

She had the best tights evah! :)

[Radio_Lady]

6. Moved to Portland, Oregon from Boston, Massachusetts --

The winter we decided to move from Sudbury, Massachusetts, there was 144 inches of snow! My daughter was already here with her family. She called me one day and said, "Mom! The crocuses are up! And it's only February 25th!" "I'm moving," I exclaimed. And we did!

We got tired of shoveling after three decades of winters. My husband particularly -- he would see the first snowflake and he was off to the travel agent to book flights to Mexico, Hawaii, Arizona, California!

[LynzM]

8. Nice!

We actually just moved back out here from Terre Haute, Indiana.... less snow there, but just as cold. I like some snow, I just get sick of it by about the beginning of February, and every storm after that just... GRR. This one's worse, only because it's been in the 60s, and I wore my flip-flops today, and I DON'T WANT TO GIVE THEM UP! :D

[hyphenate]

11. It's funny

So far since I've been back (from L.A., February, 2003), this is the first spring to really feel absolutely beautiful. Today it hit 67 degrees! If it could stay this beautiful, I would never, ever think of moving away from home again.

It's sort of like if you're in a depression when you're on an anti-depressant. The first depression I was ever in, I was on Paxil and while it worked to keep me from being sad, it also kept me from feeling the highs and the joys as well. That's what it's like to live in New England--you take the winter, and in some cases the summer, because you have the absolute unheralded bliss of the spring and the autumn. No other part of the country can top the beauty and spirit of our spring and fall. It's like watching the blossoms forming on the once bare tree branches, or hearing the birds forming their nests and hearing insy-binsy little sounds from the baby birds, or just feeling a lovely breeze cross your face, with the faint fragrance of new flowers budding. It's like seeing the ice cream places finally opening after a cold winter, and seeing the lakes unfreeze and reflect the light. Nothing so delicious as seeing lilacs blooming or cutting a few to make into an arrangement.

When I was living in L.A., these things never happened. The life in L.A. had its good points, I suppose, but nothing can thrill a Yankee like the real four seasons, each one of them special and lovely on their own.

[LynzM]

12. Agreed...

The winter and parts of the summer here really make you appreciate spring and fall, which are really beautiful. I love it when it's the right weather for jeans, a t-shirt, hoodie, and flip-flops :D Today was absolutely perfect :bounce:

[stellanoir]

13. OMG

when I lived in LA, it was during the drought. Now I understand that they've had a enormous amount of rain.

But back then, there was absolutely no weather to report. So the weather people pretended to be comedians. There was very simply, nothing to report and they weren't that funny at all.

I once got my head bit off in a bank in Malibu because there was for once, a ferocious wind blowing. I was happy to just have weather. I got annhialated by the other patrons because, as they said, "I obviously didn't own property." Like. . .what were they doing planting inappropriate flora in the desert in the first place. . .?

Sheesh.

You know the silly joke from the late 90's from California. . ."The only thing you have to fear is fire, earth, air, and water. . ."

ba dah bing