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It was nice here in Oh hi o today, too.

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S Weasel had a six pence a fuzzy wuzzy sixpence!

Pups: d’awwwwww.

Dad used to say that sitting in the sun was what kept old folks alive. . .

Here in the Texas hill country, we’re expecting the nice mild warm spell we have been enjoying to get blown out by a round of ALGORE. Temps falling to the low 40’s by Friday, and north winds sustained at 32, gusting to 41. Bleechh. Batten the hatches over by the lake, Deborah.

Spring snow storm here – second one in a week and a half. We got more snow than we have had all winter. Yay!! Moisture at last!! So why did my goats HAVE to start kidding right in the middle of it?????

Spectacular mid 60s, sunny here in Beantown today. I walked around town, taking care of business. Found a nice little restaurant with outdoor seating. A bottle of proseco, a nice spinach salad with warm bacon dressing…this is surely what heaven must look like.

As soon as I saw the photograph I thought of “Flowers for Algernon”. Yesterday the temps were in the 80’s, but today was cold, windy and in the low 40’s here in the corn patch.

Æsc! My favourite letter! Eđ, þorn, yoȝ, & ƿen (& the medial ſ) can suck it.

Animals’s brainses develop dif’rently when they’re raised by humans.

Looks like a Siberian hamster to me.

I probably meant eð, instead of eđ. Meh.

I know how those lambs feel. heaters and fireplaces are all well and good, but there’s just no substitute for going out in your shirtsleeves for the first time in spring and feeling the sun soak all the way down to your bones.

(can you tell I’m not a winter person?) And a resounding BOOO at that round of ALGORE, clifford – if its on its way towards the hill country by friday, we’ll probably get part of it here in Dallas pretty soon. (though, eyeballing the weather radar looks like it *might* slide by out to the west. that’d be nice)

I’m going to go listen to “Green Grass and High Tides” now. Seems appropriate.

“Welp, I can’t walk too far down this road. I’ll end up a Jain, I swear.”
Jeffrey Masson’s When Elephants Weep will tip you over the edge (at least until you walk downwind of the next grilled steak).

@Clifford Skridlow—it was shake, rattle, and roll last night. One more jolt last night and I think we would have tumbled down the hill. At least we got some good rain—about an inch—and when the sun comes up, I’ll see if we lost any trees. I’m a panhandle girl though (from the square part of the state), so I can take the screaming windwindwind.

Back when I lived in Denver (O those glorious years), the first warm day after a stretch of cold days was verrry nice. Here, it’s the reverse for me: The first cool day after 9 months of sticky summer makes me frisk. I swear I must have Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder.

I don’t mind the unusually cool spring if it includes some rain. When you live in Texas, all you can talk about is the rain—which is never enough, most of the time: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Residents-on-edge-as-Medina-Lake-evaporates-4170463.php#photo-3368800

Canyon Lake, where I live, is about ten feet below normal level. And under a burn ban again, so no camp fires or other burning.

But I would like to sit in the sun and recharge my freckles. And like darling Sixpence, I want to stick my nose in the flowers.

It’s hard to watch so much sun worship and put store in the notion that animals are heat-seeking machines that would respond equally to the sun or a steam radiator.

Well, rig up a radiator and do some science!