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Little Old Lady

I went to Ronni's blog to see how her BD wishes were going. She had linked to a Kalilily Time BD post and it had an excellent video. It was so excellent that I stole the following link from her (be sure to have your speakers on):

Old Lady Video

BD for a Blogger

Happy Birthday to Ronni at Time Goes By!

Driving Weather

It snowed on Tuesday night. Not a lot, but enough to stick (after having a couple of days warm enough to open all the windows). I had to go to Rhode Island yesterday, and again today, for the gold reclamation. It seems I will be doing the trek every 6 weeks or so.

Anyway, on the trip down there, I hit a band of serious snow in southern Mass. The Rhode Islandites (or Rhode Islanders or whatever) were in serious shock when it started snowing there. They kept telling me, "but, but. but, it was 60 degrees, no lie, 60 degrees a couple of days ago."

Then, on the way back from RI, there was a mix of snow, rain, fog and drizzle the entire way. It made for serious suckage driving the 100 miles back to work. Although the roads were just wet, it was just warm enough that the snow wasn't sticking, the visibility was down to about 40 feet - not much when your wizzing along at 70-75 MPH! At times I would have to slow down to 65 just to let my eyes rest from the strain of trying to see thru the crap (going any slower does nothing but endanger one's life even more).

I'm hoping that the weather is a little more settled for today's trip!

Learning Things

The Weekend Pundit has put together a post on What Others Have Learned about being on the Big Lake of New Hampshire. Even not living on a lake, I know that every project takes at least 3 trips to the hardware store (which makes for some really long days on Sundays since the nearest open store is in Concord).

Maybe Spring Can Sproing Now

We finally got some rain. This winter we had less snow than usual (as an example we usually get 10" of snow in March, not to mention rain, and we only got 3/4"). Saturday we got a few sprinkles and spots of rain, but last night it poured. Hopefully that will be what it takes to get our spring plants to get going.

Cool weather plants like Daffodils and crocus have barely even started to peek out - and even those bulbs are mostly still dormant. "Evergreen" perennials, such as creeping phlox and creeping thyme are mostly brown. Wild fires have been springing up around the state as the fire danger has been at "high" for several days (if not the last week).

Hopefully this morning's drenching rains signal the beginning of April Showers that will take care of all those problems!

Oh yeah, ice out has been declared on Winnipesauke - thanks to Weekend Pundit for reminding me that I had seen that on the news last night.

BD Wishes

It's a day late, but the wishes are sincere - Happy Birthday Jay!

Eye Sight Check

I went to the eye doctor last Friday for my yearly checkup. As usual, my left eye has deteriated a bit more, but now there is an added complication. I have a lot of floaters in that eye and they have congregated into a large black mass that likes to sit near the middle of my visual field. It is like I have a fly that is constantly hovering about 5" in front of my face. It has slowly been breaking up, in the last couple of weeks, and I am hopeful that it will continue to do so. There is a type of laser surgery that can be done, but the risk is high for complications that are worse than the problem, so for now, nothing will be done.

The perscription on my left eye has not been increased because I always end up seeing triple or quadruple when we try that. So now the vision in that eye is around 20/60. NOne of this is particularly new to me, so it was business as usual.