Today is the day! It has finally arrived!
Today is the first day of Spring! Hooray! Winter’s seemingly endless oppression is finally over!
Of course the temperature is only just above freezing and it’s going to rain all day, so it’s not really a glorious first day of Spring.
I’ll take it!
Happy Spring, everyone! Screw you, Winter!
I was in BJ’s the other night picking up boat loads of water for our cooler. They had patio furniture for sale. It made me think of summer. It made me think that I’ve been wanting to get some decent patio furniture for the whole time we’ve been living here. Mostly though, it just made me optimistic that maybe some day the Winter will end.
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Of course… it’s supposed to snow a little tonight. That sort of destroys the optimism, ya know?
Sure it’s pretty, but that doesn’t stop me from hating it.
That’s it. I’m done. Screw you, winter.
I shoveled out the whole driveway yesterday, as well as the fire hydrant in the front yard. When I finished the street was more or less clear too. Just before going to bed I looked outside. There was a two foot snow bank at the end of the driveway. Apparently a plow came by and tried to widen the already wide road.
I got up a little after 5:00am and went outside to shovel the snow bank. It was 34 degrees out. The snow was melting a little, and it was drizzling. Never in my life have I shoveled heavier snow than this morning. I was already hurting from all the digging last night, but this was just insult to injury. There was also some slush on the two cars so I cleaned all of that off too, and I dug out the fire hydrant once again.
At 7:00am the kids and I left the house. The car was covered in a thin layer of fresh snow. Are you kidding me? I cleared it off again. If you’re keeping track, this is now three times that I’ve cleaned off the car, and I haven’t even driven it yet.
On top of all of that crap-ola, while Jen was driving to work this morning a rock hit her windshield and cracked it a little. Again, are you kidding me? Kiss my ass, winter! She told me it isn’t cracked badly, and it’s safe to drive. If it starts to grow, as cracked windshields often do, we’ll have to replace the damn thing.
Enough already! I want Spring back RIGHT NOW DAMN IT!
Oh, and did I mention there is more snow in the forecast for tomorrow and Tuesday?
Old man winter can kiss my gigantic, pasty, fat, white ass. Seriously.
Asshole.
This posts combines two of the things I bitch and moan about the most. Traffic and Winter.
Here’s another reason to freakin’ hate snow. 43 mile drive home from work tonight… 2:15. Two hours and fifteen minutes. Bite me, mother nature.
The snow showers we were supposed to get yesterday turned into a few inches of wet, heavy, awfulness. The 30% chance of flurries we were supposed to get turned into about three hours of constant snow. A little of it stuck, but not much. That’s good at least.
I hate snow.
I just shoveled the end of the driveway. Pardon me a minute while I die of exhaustion…
…okay, I’m back.
The yard is most definitely a winter wonderland today. I saw three deer playing in the snow in the woods. Of course, they may have been bouncing around because the snow was too deep for them to walk. That would mean they weren’t exactly playing, but possibly struggling for survival. Still, they looked like they were playing.
I’ve seen two of my favorite back yard wilderness birds today. Cardinals and woodpeckers. All we need now is an owl and a red tailed hawk and the day will be a jackpot all around.
Apart from the horrors of the snow removal, of course. I’m going to take a fist full of aspirin now. Talk to you all later.
I do so hate winter. I hate it so very, very much.
This is probably getting repetitive, but I am so damn sick of winter… and it hasn’t even started yet.
I am not joking in the least when I tell you that the traffic on route 128 North tonight was moving just as slow as it moved during the snow storm last night.
Are you kidding me?
San Diego, here we come!
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