Winter returns for a day or so

@msklzannie

I yeild.

We have a wee taste of leftover winter.

You come from The Land Of Winter. Your weather is superior in misery.

@Seeds
Are you all still in Maine?

@f00l Nah, Jersey for the foreseeable future.

@Seeds

Well at least you got moved. And you can always visit Maine pretty easily when you need to. I hope.

How are you two liking the “across the river” big city life?

You all like Manhattan? (Not the tony, expensive places. The -fascinating-and-no-one knows-how-people-do-this-and-keep-going places

It was a wonderland (sometimes a dark wonderland, but still…) when I was there. Always stuff going on. Always people to meet.

For the first time in my life, when I lived there, I wasn’t a mostly deliberately solitary introvert (with like 4 friends or something). It was all just so fascinating, I wanted never to sleep and wanted never to stay at home (unless I had just been to a bookstore).

In terms of fascinating people, the longer you stay in the area, the better it gets. Meet a much of downtown-living-on-nothing folk, and Brooklyn and Harlem people, if you have the time and energy.

Meet the people who seem to have no home or visible means of a regular life, but are productive, brilliant, and crazy. These folk should be found in corners and niches all over.

And the food …

Fucking expensive being there tho.

@f00l Yeah, we’ve been having great time. Much easier to get out and more motivation since there’s always something we want to do. Interestingly, it’s been good for @polksaladannie’s stress levels too. We saw an off broadway musical put on by a crazy guy the other week which was great.

It is more expensive, but there’s also a lot more money coming in here than there would be in Maine. Jen can get a much better education here too.

@PolkSaladAnnie @Seeds

Just wait until you take get to really know the place.

Locals seem never to have time to do tourist stuff unless they have houseguests.

Not that the tourist stuff isn’t fantastic. It is.

Just that there is so much local and people stuff to do that is also great and that tourists would never hear about or get invited to.

NYkers and people from that area have such fascinating minds, and unusual personal domains of interest and expertise.

@f00l I know what you mean. I’ve never really done the touristy stuff. I’ve only seen the Statue of Liberty as I was traveling into or out of the city. I’ve never seen the Empire State Building. I’ve always had something going on when I was in the city.

The one time I did, I went to Times Square. It’s a terrible place.

@Seeds Can’t remember if you’re beer drinkers or not, but there’s some fine breweries in NJ that I can tell you about if you’re interested.

@dashcloud We are and I am

@Seeds Cape May Brewing Company & Third State are both good.

@f00l

Light snow this morning in Wichita Falls Tx.

Usually the first Sat in April would be a day for doing yardwork and getting a sunburn.

@f00l

Hi!!!

To everyone in Florida and SoCal!

And Fucking Fuck You, Fuckers!

@f00l

Warm wishes from the comfy yellow-orange areas!

/image sunshine

@f00l any day now…

Too fucking lazy to crop the photo, sorry.

@f00l
Just repeat this to yourself over and over.

Added: A couple of weeks of almost-constant rain, then a hard freeze, more rain, and a second hard freeze. HBO is in the middle of filming season 3 of True Detective. Welcome to spring in the Ozarks, film crew!

@f00l Nah. That’s what fridges are for!

@moondrake Your thermometer provides TMI…

@shahnm I like all of it except for the alerts. I already have 2 phones, an Echo dot and a Google Home that shout at me when some kid goes missing 900 miles away.

@moondrake @shahnm So, if I read this display correctly -
It’s 9:18:46 AM on Saturday April 7th, 2018 and we are in contact with aliens. The outside is holding steady at 70.7 F and a crisp 13% relative humidity and you have good radio reception. The indoors is falling from a balmy 73.4F and your nose is itching from a ridiculous 1% relative humidity. You have a daisy on your lawn, but it’s not growing, and some blue stuff is coming out of blue clouds. You have no forecast, which sounds dreadful. You have an unfortunate sensitivity to the proteins in chicken eggs, you watched too much TV last night, your cousin is still annoyed at the comment you made last weekend and your car is 304 miles overdue for its oil change. At least your dog is happy; good thing you went for a walk when you did. In a short time, you will get an alert about some kid who went missing exactly 900 miles away. Don’t ask me how I know he’s exactly 900 miles away if he’s supposed to be missing, but I’d look in the treehouse, just like last time.

@mehcuda67 @moondrake @shahnm Bravo!

@sammydog01 send it to me, please.

@RiotDemon I’ll go scrape some off the deck for you. It’s covered.

@Kidsandliz Thanks for that. Makes me more cheerful considering it’s still snowing.

@sammydog01

Did you get a lot of rain this winter and early spring?

If so then you will likely not have prolonged over 100F. More lots of high 90’s and lots of humidity <fun!> and lots of skeeters.

And a high water table and prob no drought.

That’s what I’m expecting/hoping here and I would guess we are usually dryer than the VA/NC area.

94 today. So exhausting to use a shovel and dig my way out through all this sunshine.

@narfcake Yeah especially when you need to use a leaf blower first to get all the hot air out of the way first so your shovels of snow don’t melt on your sidewalk and then potentially ice over when the sun goes down.

@sammydog01 You have turtles?? Are they big ones?

@Kidsandliz One is pretty big, one medium, one small. Like the three bears.

@sammydog01 Cool. How long have you had them? I hear they can live for decades.

@Kidsandliz Almost 20 years. I hope one of my kids agrees to take them when I die.

@sammydog01 Wow. Maybe a zoo will if they will not. Do they act like pets - things like know you, etc.?

@sammydog01 Hope you don’t get lyme. I got that last summer when I missed a tick.

@Kidsandliz It was a lone star tick. I was gonna give @f00l a hard time until I found out they’re not from Texas.

@f00l @sammydog01 Hmm thinking you were making a joke and got it in TX I read about it. If it bit you it can make you a vegan!

@sammydog01

I’m almost positive that that’s not where one is supposed to keep ticks.

@f00l That was terrifying.

@f00l hahaha… love it!

@sammydog01

If storms are increasing in power, frequency, and volatility, then that means more (and more powerful) hailstorms, tornados, and hurricanes, I suppose.

We seem to be getting “more”, based on my own rather unreliable and unverified instincts.

@f00l

Could you (and would you) mail some hail to me?

@PlacidPenguin
You know me. If I collect some spare hail today, I might get it mailed in the next decade or three.

So … Sure. Whisper me a USPS verified address.

@sammydog01 Shoot… about my 5th.

@lseeber Florida?

@sammydog01 Alabama. Flash floods day before yesterday too. Ugh. May have the insurance co check my roof since its been pummeled by hail several times recently.