It is entirely my fault that the weather is unseasonably cold.
First, last Friday, I installed an air conditioner in my bedroom window. We have no air circulation up there, and last summer was beastly hot. We really needed an air conditioner in our bedroom.
Second, our furnace was having a few problems, so we called the repair man in. In preparation to coming back next week to fix it, he asked if he could turn it off and drain the system. I said okay, as I didn’t figure we would be using it much at this time of the year.
I am very sorry I have caused all this cold weather. If I have inconvenienced anyone, I herewith apologize.
Northeast? What about us poor bastards here in the Midwest? That must be one powerful goddamn air conditioning unit. We set record lows here the other night. Beat a 110 year old record by three friggin’ degrees.
Dave, I’ll let you take credit for the cold weather in the upper Northeast, and even the Midwest if you like. But the cold snap in the mid-Atlantic this past weekend is all my fault.
You see, anytime I take my wife anywhere to celebrate our anniversary, the weather may be fine when we leave, but it invariably turns chilly, and usually rainy and overcast. This unfortunate tradition commenced with our honeymoon back in 1991, and has held up, well not every year since, but just those years we’ve marked the occasion by going somewhere for the weekend, or longer.
We celebrated our eleventh anniversary this past weekend. We went to Ocean City (MD) on Friday. The weather was as balmy as we could have wished. For a few hours.
You know the rest: the front moved through with wind and rain and a serious temperature drop. We went from shorts and sandals to jeans and flannel shirts real fast. Just as it did in 1991 and 1992 and…you get the idea.
So the mid-Atlantic cold snap is all my fault. Sorry, guys.
[sub]Coda: we stayed at a hotel called, of all things, the Coconut Malorie. Very nice place, but as we checked in, the icemaker in someone’s room wasn’t working, and the desk clerk was dealing with him on the phone. “Ice? You want ice? This is Coconut Manor, no snow, no ice,” was out of my mouth before I had time to think about it. Wish I could have been the desk clerk for just that one minute. :)[/sub]
RT, you bastard! I knew you had to be behind this.
But you stayed at the Coconut Malorie? My sis and I stayed there last Thanksgiving for a getaway weekend. Nice place, but rather strange. Did you go up into the tower? Have they put any art in the art gallery?
I can top that. The drought emergency and dangerously low resevoirs on the East Coast, raging from Georgia to Maine, is entirely MY fault.
I bought a new snow shovel in November.
But I’m glad to know that DAVE is to blame for the current cold weather; I was under the impression that I had caused it by taking down the storm windows by mid-April.
Ike may have caused the drought, but I take credit for the unusually balmy and snowless winter most of Southern New England experienced. I caused this by finally splurging on a brand new 5 hp two stage snow blower in November.
Georgia hell! You are far more powerful than you imagined. We have major drought warnings here in Central Florida and the ‘Smokey Bear Fire Warning’ signs are pointing to ‘high’. (Amazingly though, I haven’t seen watering restrictions yet.)
By the way, are you causing the sinkholes also? I would normally say they are caused by the unusually low water tables, but if you’d take the blame for those too because of the shovel, I would much appreciate it.
Well, if you’re taking the credit (or the blame?) for New England’s balmy and snowless winter, I guess I will have to take the blame for the Mid-Atlantic’s balmy and snowless winter.
My husband bought a brand-new 4-wheel drive truck last spring and a snowblower in the fall, certain he’d get a lot of use out of both of them this year.
Oh, well. :rolleyes:
plnnr, aren’t you in the Richmond area? I’m up near Annapolis, and my tomato plants are doing fine.
I’m sorry I decided not to plant any lettuce when I started my garden a month ago. I figured it would be too warm. I sure called that one wrong. :rolleyes:
