There's Always The Weather

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Only dirty snowbanks left. Passing thru our great capital and flowers starting to bloom in low desert - and it doesn't get much lower except Yuma. Hopefully we will have one of those beautiful springs where flowers blanket the valley floors.

[fhunter]

I jinxed it. Snow. Lots of it. And rather pretty surroundings (if you do not mind airport and traffic troubles).

https://translate.google.com/translate? ... F03%2F02%2 F055%2F specially for you, Moi.

PS. As for the rock singers - I do not know. Not all do it, more like it is exception. Whom did you hear?

[moi621 (imported)]

I jinxed it. Snow. Lots of it. And rather pretty surroundings (if you do not mind airport and traffic troubles).

https://translate.google.com/translate? ... F03%2F02%2 F055%2F specially for you, Moi.

PS. As for the rock singers - I do not know. Not all do it, more like it is exception. Whom did you hear?

Did Lake Ladoga freeze hard enough to truck in some food yet? If needed

I do believe @kristoff land is colder than you and due to get colder next week.

When was the last real Russian Winter in Russia? The Great Patriotic War?

Here there was an inch of rain over 24 hours. More than predicted.

Came down light like a good sod soaker and not a gully washer.

The garlic, onion and green shelling peas grow well while the corn struggles and most remain dormant. Except the Loquats that are beginning to ripen in bushels. Loquats seem to observe a ten month year and the time of fruiting keeps getting earlier and earlier until it is late in the year. Lots of those trees in my n'hood and all fruit at the same time.

In the move, Red Heat 1988, there is a scene early in the movie where The Arnold goes into a bar and there is a man at a piano singing with that, grating the vocal cords, voice.

I thought maybe it was a Russian thing and not a Rock thing.

Here y'go The bar seen with the grating vocal cords voice pianist. What's he singing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

zRpo8zxxNiE

Moi

@fhunter Thank you for the link to images.

[moi621 (imported)]

Madison colder than Minneapolis.

Both below -20F

Who woulda thought is possible.

Light rain for a few days, then no rain, then a few days more. :hearthrob rain.

Suspect it was the rabbit that ate the last of my saffron plants.

2 traps set.

The rabbit seems to like my saffron and my dill but, not my lettuce.

Moi

[Poor_pup_no_balls (imported)]

14 inches of snow in our city. Plus, on street parking means parking will be rough until April.

[kristoff]

There is so much snow that the plows can't push it all to the curb. Instead, the snow mounds are about 18 inches away from the curb. With cars parked on both sides, a fire engine can't get through. So Minneapolis and St Paul have instituted a ban on parking on the even numbered side of most streets.

It was a scary experience this weekend with the snow. We were developing ice dams on the roof, especially at the bottom of the valleys. Got my 65 year old ass up on that roof with a shovel and a roof rake, and cleared most of the roof - hanging on for dear life on a 12 incline roof. At the peak it is three stories, and only 4-5 feet of snow on the ground to cushion an impact. To hell with winter and the snowiest February on record here.

10 degrees F below tonight.... And I continue to live here!

[Paolo]

And y'all wonder why I don't wanna live there!

[moi621 (imported)]

And y'all wonder why I don't wanna live there!

I can't figure out why you live "there",

when you could be with the departed, Riverwind / River

in Hawai'i.

Rain now and then.

Wednesday suppose to be a good one.

Caught a squirrel in my live capture cage and released

on the other side of the water, in case they have homing systems.

It's the saffron crocus eating rabbit I'm after. All my saffron, gone.

Moi

[kristoff]

We got another 6 inches of snow

after 2 inches of rain. Couldn't even get out of the driveway - didn't have a MN-DOT plow this time to make the way clear. I'll wait for my snow guy, and hope they can help push me out. OTOH, the princess made it home after 2-1/2 shifts and five cardiac emergencies. That is what happens when you are the practitioner on duty. At least he stopped on the way home to eat and have a bloody. I would have joined him if I could have gotten out. Oh well, had a screw driver - at least I got my OJ.

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Light snow this morning. Cleared and cold wind in the afternoon. Saw the first little cockroach scurrying across the tile, so summer must be on the way.