It was 80 above here the other day. Twenty years ago we would get a May heat wave, but this is only March! Nobody has memories of this.
Normally, we have 4 feet of snow and a howling NW wind. Instead, we had a thunderstorm with rain tonight.
After 2 successive Springs of record flooding, we have had a brown winter: very little snow, what came went fast. Oh well, bottom of the river should have nice, fine sand!
Climate now is getting much as it was when Bjarni came here first (985) but it still has a way to go. Patterns seem to be changing to give some of our regular crap weather to Europe. This could be a Good Thing; normally they do not believe that we regularly get 30 and 40 below because, as I have been told, it is "impossible" for anyone to live in that kind of climate. I have been doing it now for most of my years (only 67 so far), so they can have MY share of the 40 below for a while. Maybe they will believe it, then! They might even stop bitching because Canadians "use too much energy"; climate like ours, you have to use energy or freeze to death.
Come to think of it, they might even forgive us for producing all that nasty oil and coal and hydro power...... all of which they will expect us to give to them while they destroy our industries with dumping. Some of them are in for a rude awakening, I'm afraid.
JMOORE, your flowers are BEAUTIFUL! That's all I can say!
VINTAGE HUNTER: can you advise me, kindly, what are COLLARDS? This is something we hear about on the Tube and in books and films, but they don't grow here at all; I have never seen such. As to Asparagus, doesn't it grow in cans? I know that it is a perennial but, to us, that usually means "froze out very year". This weather is MOST unusual.
Should be a FINE year on the range.
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