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dawn_felagund

Will This Winter Ever End??

Apr 08, 2009 20:51

This morning, I woke up and there was snow on the ground. Snow! In April! In Maryland! Yes, I know we live in north-north Maryland now but still. Snow in April is ridiculous. Hasn't it ever heard the saying that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb? What the hell kind of lamb is this? A Monty Python killer lamb ( Read more... )

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dawn_felagund April 9 2009, 13:50:17 UTC

I'll also be twenty-eight in September as well! (In my own mind, I am twenty-eight already because I change age when my husband does!)

And no worries on the pictures ... when we went to England and Scotland last year, we brought back more than 1,000! o.O

surgicalsteel April 9 2009, 02:08:52 UTC

It snowed here, too, but I'm considerably north of you. We expect the occasional snow in Maine in April. ;)

TS Eliot had it right about April.

Eeeep, 28? Happy birthday to him - and if you've never been to Ireland and need suggestions on where to go, e-mail me. My husband's from Ireland, his mom still lives there. We've been a zillion times. :)

dawn_felagund April 9 2009, 13:52:58 UTC

I will definitely email you! This is our first trip there, so we'd love some info from an insider! :D

I generally think of March as the evol month. April is pretty nice around here ... usually! Of course, I am not used to the part of the state where we're living yet; maybe it is different here. *hopes not* I love Spring too much. :)

surgicalsteel April 9 2009, 14:01:38 UTC

We know more about the southwest and the area around Dublin than anywhere - he grew up in the southwest (right close to the lakes of Killarney and the famed ring of Kerry) and went to University College Dublin for his bachelors'. But it's a gorgeous country. I can probably scrounge up some pics of Kerry and Cork for you!

dawn_felagund April 9 2009, 14:03:39 UTC

We'll be spending most of the trip in Dublin, though we're going to do a few days in a yet-unnamed-city-that's-not-Dublin. ;) We're not to worried about deciding on that last since we do not expect that this will be our last trip to Ireland! :D

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whitewave16 April 9 2009, 02:33:11 UTC

Hope you get warm weather soon. Over here, summer started early (but then it is summer here for 10 months in a year). Your coming summer holiday in Ireland sounds good.

Happy Birthday to Mr. Felagund!

dawn_felagund April 9 2009, 13:55:27 UTC

*sigh* I could live with a ten-month summer! I'm miserable in Winter. I sometimes think that I should have been born at the Equator but Bobby had to go and be born on the central east coast of the US first! ;)

tarion_anarore April 9 2009, 03:00:54 UTC

We've gotten one blizzard (yes, an actual blizzard complete with school closure for the first time!) and one not-quite-blizzard snowstorm within a week of each other. At this rate, there'll be more snow tomorrow. But today was actually gorgeous. The weather here is bipolar!

Happy birthday to Bobby! And have fun in Ireland! (And if on the off chance I happen to be working there, come visit! ;)

dawn_felagund April 9 2009, 13:59:12 UTC

You might be working in Ireland this summer?! We're going at the end of June; we're meeting hrymfaxe too for a weekend. And ford_of_bruinen is in Cork, I think, though I haven't had a chance to talk to her of meeting up ... but now I have this grand vision of all these Silmgeeks meeting at once! Poor Bobby ... ;)

And as long as Maryland continues to claim to be a "southern state," then I find it unseemly to have snow in April. ;)

tarion_anarore April 9 2009, 17:24:50 UTC

Possibly! I might be working ANYWHERE. I am a bit torn between wanting to live at home and work (save money for grad school) and going abroad to work. But if I AM in Ireland...well, it certainly would be great to meet! And Bobby doesn't have to worry, we can talk about, um, jousting?

Speaking of, are you still looking at buying a horse? I know times is hard, but if you were, there are quite a few nice horses for sale...Anyway. XD

I agree! Snow in April is unacceptable even to me! (Well, I'll accept it if it means school closures. ;) We never had a proper winter - when I moved back up in January, it was 60-something, and I had to change into a T-shirt. Then cold-warm-cold-warm cycle since...though getting progressively warmer on the "warm" days...Still say you ought to visit me here! We've got nice hiking...;)

rhapsody11 April 9 2009, 09:18:17 UTC

We've got two Dutch sayings: Maart roert zijn staart and April doet wat hij wil (March wags its tail and April does what he wants). Sounds rather appropiate for Maryland weather don't you think?

Happy birthday Bobby and I hope you guys have good hiking weather!

dawn_felagund April 9 2009, 14:01:57 UTC

The weather today is gorgeous! Maybe my griping worked? (Not! ;)

Our saying here is, "Don't like the weather? Wait fifteen minutes." This is very true. We have gotten a meter of snow one day and, the next, it is 30C and it all melts and schools have to be closed for flooding!

March is said to "come in like a lion and go out like a lamb." That's usually pretty true here ... though the lamb takes its good ol' time arriving, for sure. April is usually pretty pleasant. Maryland weather, I am disappointed in you! (Although if we have more days like today, I will forgive you. ;)