Snooooow.

[mrissa]

Here we have a thick, wet late-winter snow. So far we appear to have only small branch damage to the trees. This is the kind of snow that lost us the tree in front two years ago. January snow is not nearly as dangerous to our trees as this.

But let me point out: the feature in the Strib today appears to be for boys' high school basketball tournament and its approach. Minnesotans! What do I tell you about snow every year? Every year, I say, "the snow is not over until the basketball is over." I realize you don't care who wins the high school boys' basketball tournament; heaven knows I don't. But you have to pay attention to when it is if you want to know when the snow might be over. (Not that it's guaranteed to be over after that. Just that the odds aren't at all good before it, no matter how warm it gets or how much has already melted off.)

Another rule of thumb is that if the Dayton's/Bachman's spring flower show is still on in the Eighth Floor downtown, you can't yet be confident that the snow is done. That's why they have the silly thing: so we can go breathe green out of the snow, and feel wistful, and perhaps buy their gardening crap. (I hope I get to go this year. It's not as good as the Christmas stories in the Eighth Floor, but it's still good, and who knows what they'll do now that Dayton's isn't Dayton's any more? You can't trust these Macy's people to know what's important. They might, but then they might not. But there's enough going on that I just can't tell what I'll be able to do in the next two weeks.)

I am an event calendar person rather than a date calendar person. My aunt Mary makes my calendars every year, and this year she notes that March 12 is Jack Kerouac's birthday and March 14 is Einstein's. What happens on the day between Kerouac and Einstein, I'm not entirely sure, but I guess we'll find out.

Comments

[zalena.livejournal.com]

March 13th - Et tu Brutus?

[one-undone.livejournal.com]

My calendar has "Hugh Walpole 1884" - ???

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

The real question is: What couldn't happen between Kerouac and Einstein?

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I am more an outside event person, I think. (Things like the birds waking me up. This would probably stop if I would stop feeding them, of course.)

[laurel]

I thought there was some tournament or other this past weekend or this coming weekend, so I figured snow was coming. It's just one of those things.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There was hockey the weekend just past, and I think basketball is coming up. So yah: snow.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Alas, but no: I do not feed the birds, and they wake me up anyway, sometimes.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Isn't that March 15? Maybe I have my Ides mixed up.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

British writer.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

For many years out here there was the Bon Marche (mostly referred to as "the Bon"), and at some point it became one of the Federateds, but they didn't have their act together regarding wedding registries and the like (so that if someone bought you a gift through the registry, they would have no proof that it had been bought, so bye-bye, so sorry, no gift. Having been on the giving *and* not-so-much-receiving end of this little dance, I think I'm entitled to be slightly tweaked) and the clothes were just OK.

Then they were Bon-Macy's for a while, and only recently have they come clean and become just plain Macy's. Do they know what's important? I'm not sure. I'll let you know what happens if anyone registers with them.

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

Snow? Hmm. Today we have rain. Lots and lots and lots of rain. Buckets of rain.

... Which probably means that the snow comes tomorrow. And here I was cheering for the rain and abnormally warm weather this weekend melting away the last of the crusty snow.

But it's all okay because I bought myself a pretty green hat at lunch in an end-of-winter sale. Joy in tiny things, this is what I keep telling myself.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I, on the other hand, pulled a button off my pretty green (long wool) coat yesterday. Sigh. It's a total PITA to resew those, too, though not as bad as my shorter winter coat (shown in icon).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thanks.

I have some Dayton's things that are important to me regardless of their practical value. The basement deli and the seasonal displays and some of the sale names are emotionally resonant because of my childhood.

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

Oh, boo, hiss to the button. We hateses sewing buttons onto coatses. (Which is probably why my white wool coat has two buttons hanging sadly from long threads, and why I keep telling them, "Hang in there buttons, just hang in there...")

We need faeries to come in the night and do these things for us. And if they wanted to clean the bathtub for me too, I'd be cool with that ...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would make brownies for the brownies, if they would sew my coat buttons.

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

*I* would sew your coat buttons for brownies! (Mmm, brownies ...)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You know, we do have brownies here right now.