Turn, Turn, Turn: The Year-Round Seasons Thread

Seriously!  April truly is the cruelest month.  We had a low two nights ago in the very low 20's.  Last night the low was in the very high 40's.  And we'll be back to the low 20's again on Saturday night.  I can't wait for it to finally pick one and stick with it.

I might be an idiot?

Yesterday the temp wasn't SO bad (around 50), so I left work wishing I'd worn a hoodie instead of my winter coat. So today I wore the hoodie. It was just snowing outside.

It's a very blustery day today. Sun is shining, sky is blue, but, man, that wind is something.

Our snow event this weekend turned into a chilly rain event instead.  And yes, it was freezing overnight into Sunday, but now?  Now it's all low 60s this week, and 74-76 next Sunday and Monday, per Weather Underground.  We took the Christmas lights out of the peach tree!  We're hardening off our onion seedlings to transplant into the garden!  I planted baby fruit trees yesterday, getting dirt on my hands in the bright sunshine!  And last night we started into our summer "DVDs of the entire run of a crappy procedural that ran for many seasons" viewing, queuing up "The Mentalist" for the first time.  It is definitely feeling like a new season at stately Dick n Hisses Manor!!

I have absolutely had it with the weather here.  HAD IT.  It has been in the low 50's and rainy all week, and will remain so through the weekend.  It feels like November.  It's exhausting, draining weather; it's so hard to get going in the mornings, and it seems like there's no way to get warm, with this damp, pervasive, gloomy chill.  Obviously, it would be great if we could have some sunny, warm weather, but at this point I'll take one or the other.  Sunny and chilly?  Sure, it's an improvement.  Rainy and warmer?  Also fine.  But please, no more of this until November's actually here.

Last weekend was total crap. But today? Today is glorious. High of 77. Sunny. Beautiful.

It's the first genuinely, unpleasantly hot morning here. Ugh. Not even June yet. It's going to be a long summer.

It's baby bird season here, and an idiot robin chose one of the hanging flower pots by our driveway/garage for its nest.  We're now pinned down, trying not to disrupt the nest too much with our comings and goings, because we feel all bad for the hideous, repulsive little babies that hatched in there.  This spot is something of a high-traffic location, and it's been a pain in the ass having them there. 



Internet research has informed us that baby robins aren't cute like baby chickens or ducks because they hatch much younger.  They're like gross, grey little embryos when they hatch.  ::shudder::  They also can keep themselves warm all huddled up with their siblings in the nest within a day of hatching, so contrary to our concern that they'd been abandoned, they're actually fine left alone.  The mother moves on to lay another nest (they can do up to three clutches a summer!  LIKE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH ROBINS ALREADY), and keeps an eye on these babies from a safe distance.  I guess they get fed gazillions of times a day, though, and I've interrupted the process more than once.  Per the interwebs, a baby robin will be fed up to 14 feet of chewed-up earthworm before they leave the nest.  And leaving the nest happens within two weeks of hatching, so we've theoretically got one more day before these little monsters move on.  I can't wait, because I'd really like to use the barbecue, and the pot they're in is right over our grilling spot.

So, we're basically getting hit close to directly by TS Colin, and I'm annoyed.

Here in Maryland, we've basically gone from an extended March right into summer. There's nothing like watching the ancient gum trees in your yard swaying dangerously thanks to the high winds brought by a massive thunderstorm. Underneath which your new car is parked. We didn't sustain any damage, but holy shit that thunderstorm was crazy last night. I haven't seen it rain that ferociously in a long time - within 10 minutes of it starting, mud was sliding down our driveway into the ditch.

Here in Jersey, like in Maryland, the extended misery of March-like weather did, indeed, give way straight to summer.  I wouldn't have minded having a spring, but whatever -- I'm just glad it's not cold anymore.  Of course, it's easy to be happy with the weather right now, because it's stunningly glorious out today.  Like, life gives you only a handful of absolutely perfect days, and this?  Is one of them.  I can't wait to get back outside.

A couple nights ago it was chilly enough for a sweater, and I started yearning hard for fall.

We had a wet spring and now summer's been fairly dry, but we did get a thunderstorm last night, and I took Link out right after it ended - the sky was so weird, with dark clouds hovering in the east and sunlight bursting through from the west as it set. And there was a really lovely double rainbow.

So hot. It's also not rained in several weeks. So after all the rains and flooding of spring, grass is browning, trees are wilting.