Mayvember – Day 4
REALLY?
This was the world that greeted me today. Today. May 4th.
My plan to keep blogging about Mother Nature until I shame her into getting her act together is not meeting with the success I’d hoped. I’m getting something more like an angry Nature Dad with a willow switch, “You gonna cry? Huh? I’ll give you something to cry about!”
In the blind and desperate hope that my eyes were playing tricks on me, I checked the other side of the house.
Same deal. A fresh inch of new snow with more coming down as I snapped – both in the photographic, and the mental health way.
As if to say (insert rude gesture with middle finger here), Angry Nature Dad had other stuff in his bag of tricks. The snow kept falling, and then around dinner time, we got a nice double helping of pea soup.
Those are trees in there. And I actually had to mess around with photo editing so you could make them out at all.
When the fog lifted, I found something on the deck that may explain what’s going on here, and I thought I’d make a meme to share.
Angry Nature Dad likes a good añejo.
We had a rather chilly April, but spring is springing apace here in NYC. We’re due for needed rain Wednesday, which will relieve the allergy sufferers’ grief from tree pollen. I’ve never had seasonal allergies, but I suspect that I’d be allergic to breakup season. Hold fast.
Some little sun god tells me that the 5th has been a better story!!!
May Day snow is gone, grass is green- woot! The forecast for the coming week has several good chances for rain- double woot! The longer mountain snowmelt is delayed, and the longer I can go before turning on the sprinkler system, the better.
Colorado is still in a category 2 drought, a d fire season looms… ship the snowman down here (minus the bottle, thank you very much). 😉
it’s NATURE DAD’S fault ?!?! Sure, sure, blame it on the guy when things fall apart !! 🙂 sounds more like Mother Nature in need of serious PMS medication….. talk about your mood swings !!!
OUCH!!!
nope. sounds like an anthropomorphizing dealie cooked up whilst in the throes of severe cabin fever.
cabin fever being an altogether too benign and diminutive name for an all too real and painful affliction here in the far north.
you should hear what the gents here call “mother” nature just at the cusp of spring breakup .
and see crime reports from all over which show normally sturdy, functioning people starting to unravel
and an equally abrupt drop right after breakup.
personally, I prefer saying a lot of bad words and kicking the wind to the trying to pinch my neighbors’ faces off to relieve the pain and pressure thing that so many who are afflicted prefer.
the humano-centric gendered notion of nature being a mom has never worked for me, nor does any notion of a male-centric nature.
Quick,take her keys. She is in no condition to drive. Thanks for the funnies on another gloomy,damp,chilly ioway morning. Robins are wearing hip waders and have 2x4s strapped across their fannies so they don’t sink in the sog. Even the urmps(nightcrawlers) are wearing pfds.As eyetalians are wont to say,arubberducky.
Sunny skies on the horizon tonight. Perhaps spring with arrive in the morning.