Had really pleasant weather for a couple weeks but the last couple days have been dangerously windy and much cooler. Overturned semis on I 94 between Chicago and Milwaukee. Winds were so strong it ripped my flag loose. I looked all over for it and it was on the roof. I wasn't going after it in those winds. I got lucky and it eventually blew down and got tangled in the gutter on the deck where I was able to retrieve it without climbing. Winds have calmed down and Old Glory flies once again in the front yard.

Signs of spring everywhere the last few days: flowers peeking through on the east side of my garage, robins beginning to re appear, woodpeckers and frogs audible in the woods behind the yard. And this morning, something I've never seen before: a pair of Coopers Hawks being very affectionate in an attempt to make little hawks. "Tis the season! Our Hawk population seems to have grown over the last few years. We're seeing them more frequently. As it gets warmer we know when a Hawk is around. Squirrels go in to hiding and the crows go nuts.

Nothing to do with the season because this can happen year round: We regularly hear coyotes howling but they sounded really close a few nights ago. I got curious and went for a walk out in the woods behind the yard the next day. Sure enough, not 30 yards behind the yard was a fresh deer carcass picked nearly clean. In a few days it will be nothing but bones when the rest of the small carnivores get the leftovers. By the middle of summer the sun will turn those bones completely white.

Before anyone asks and I beat the living crap out of people for screaming about snow...

(Dave's just slightly PO'ed this morning before caffeine and sugar)...

This is the MASSIVE HORRENDOUS SNOWFALL in my yard this morning.

This is my driveway... That is the street beyond.

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It hasn't snowed in my town in my lifetime. However, a few weeks ago we got a hailstorm.

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2017 11:26 am It hasn't snowed in my town in my lifetime. However, a few weeks ago we got a hailstorm.

This inch of snow is pretty but that's it.

82 in Las Vegas yesterday.

Mac. I went to college in LA. Left for a field trip in January, 1967. We were headed for the Grand Canyon. It was raining like hell as we left LA. We followed snow plows and actually got to Flagstaff. The next morning the Mustang was a mere bump in the 66" of snow. We diverted for a bit thru Prescott which got 3 feet of snow. I heard that it was the first time it had snowed in Long Beach since 1933 or there abouts.

Paolo wrote: Tue Feb 28, 2017 5:49 pm I would not be surprised, Moi.

Last year, we were having light frost all the up to the last week of May.

There be rain in our forecast late Monday, March 20 thru early Tuesday March 21st.

Happy Spring Equinox one and all.

And those storms just may be that late March if not early April snow. The big flakes, fluffy kinds.

Stay tuned.

Meanwhile my sweet shelling peas are some 3'-4' and not showing any flowering or peas.

Usually they would grow a bit, flower, grow more and I had levels of ripe peas.

This year the healthiest vines I have ever had and not one flower or pea pod.

Ideas.

Moi

Two feet of snow predicted over the next 48 hours. Hopefully this will be the last snowstorm of the season, but last year we had one of the largest snowstorms of the season in early April.

We had a couple snows in December that required the use of a shovel but January & February just a few little dustings and rain because it was unusually warm.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:34 pm The last couple days have been

different. Several inches Sunday night in to Monday and heavy lake effect snow (Lake Michigan) last night and in to today. There's at least a foot piled up on our deck. I'd post a picture here if I could.

Don't worry.

The Real Storm across the E.A.:hearthrobLand is coming.

It will happen after the Spring Equinox.

Snow enough to comprende why some of us, chose California. Or Pahoa, Hawai'i

I mean the Desert by the Sea. Not Wolfie's place beyond the mountains.

Foggy, foggy mornings dissolve to high, thin white clouds in the afternoon.

The onions sprout.

Moi

nvrgag44 (imported) wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2017 1:43 pm We had a couple snows in December that required the use of a shovel but January & February just a few little dustings and rain because it was unusually warm.

Snow from the last couple days also missed us. Snow has been below average this winter.