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April Fool’s!

Mother Nature has a nasty sense of humor! Today is, I checked the calendar, APRIL.  The snow has melted off almost completely.  Twice.  This is what was outside the window this morning:

From the dining room window. Add 2 inches to the snow on the fence since I took this picture two hours ago.....

That is a Nor’easter in progress.  Now I love snow.  Just NOT in April.  Enough already!

The plants are trying to bud. Harrumph. Under snow?

More of the meadow. I promise. It really is under there. If you look closely, you can see the jumbo snowflakes on the left side......

The porch off the kitchen, and Paul's lousy-traction-van before he left....

Plus Paul and Eli are heading to Portland for the ginormous wrestling meet that is six New England states.  They tried to go via Camden, and Paul’s van couldn’t make it up the hill and into downtown Hope.  So they turned around and went west to go via Appleton and up to Augusta.  Will add about 45 minutes (on a good day) but at least they just got off the back road and onto a semi-main road, Route 17.  That is still a 2 lane “highway” but it will be one of the first plowed/kept clear.  UGH.  It has snowed at least two inches since two hours ago…….and it is heavy wet snow.  Maybe I should paint the basement floor again before the power (and lights) go out….

Looking West out the living room at 8 a.m.

I’ll blog about Eli’s wrestling at States last weekend next, then more on my studio, friend Jacquie Scuitto and Ann Fahl’s new book, Deborah’s 12 x 12 book… lots to write, no time!!!!!

PS…here’s the car, mostly dug out from under the 9+ inches of snow on top… it gets hit by lots of wind.  We had over 12 inches on the walkway….

Notice the snow comes halfway up the hubcaps.....

5 Responses to “April Fool’s!”

  1. Jacquie in Vermont Says:

    Hey — I remember seeing snow in Maine in MAY!
    It was only once, but nothing to say it couldn’t happen again … 🙂

  2. Sally Says:

    Sorry for your snow. But good news, I hear. Your pieces has been accepted into the “space between”,. Read your name of the participants on Susan Brubaker Knapp’s blog today. Congratulations!

  3. Barbara Says:

    Well you just made me feel better. We are lucky to get into the high 30’s and still have snow on the ground and are supposed to get some snow sleet mix tonight. I am with you…enough is enough.

  4. Debby Harwell Says:

    Congratulations on your piece being accepted into the Space Between Show! It’s an incredible piece and certainly well deserved to be included! Also congratulations to your son’t second place on the State level! That’s amazing and especially for a middle school athlete. So much of the game is learning the strategy and he seems to be off to a wonderful start on that! Well, now for the snow, well you already know what I think about all that snow and now here it is even in April! So glad not to have to deal with all of that, but I bet you’ll appreciate those wonderful spring flowers all that much more. Our daffodils have already bloomed and faded away, so our spring was fairly early. But then now we’ve had blast of cold air too, just no snow!!! Yikes!

  5. Judy Rys Says:

    I’m sure you’re really sick of snow, but it really looks gorgeous! Easy to say when you live in CA, huh? Seriously, the photo you took of the meadow is great. It’s so incredibly peaceful.