Can’t everyone see that little box in the upper right-hand corner of a person’s post where it says “Location”? I know some people have smart-ass comments, but Beck’s says So. Ark.
59 degrees and beautiful here (south of Seattle, WA, USA, North America, Earth).
Depends on the theme you’re using. I can see the location of guests because I have the sultantheme thing selected in my User CP.
Nor’Easter #1 March 2: 2 inches of snow, some rain
Nor’Easter #2 March 8: 15 inches of snow
Nor’Easter #3 March 13: 26 inches of snow
Up until the 7th we were doing okay. We were at 57" total for the winter, which is 3" less than the annual average for this part of New Hampshire. Now we’ve gotten another 41" in a week. Our last big storm last year wasn’t until the first week of April, so most people are wary and very tired of this.
God, how do y’all live I those places? It must be a wonderful place in other seasons. I hope for all your sakes it is. Good luck to you all. Be careful digging out. Spring will pop up soon, I am sure.
I have dutifully pulled the car into the garage all winter in case there was snow, but there were mostly only fairly light dustings. Finally it’s sunny March, and I left it out in the driveway, thinking maybe I’ll give it a nice wash tomorrow. We immediately get one of the bigger snowfalls of the winter, the epicenter of which appeared to be directly over my house. The guy who plows the driveway came by. Normally I have a nice clean dry car and clear driveway, but this time he was only able to get the front half of the driveway done in front of the car, leaving me with my car sitting under what appeared to be a minor avalanche. I brushed it off as best I could and went grocery shopping, whereupon I opened the trunk and bits of icy wet snow started falling in.
I should have learned by now from long experience that I have the power to control the weather, just by where I leave my car. Which is precisely why we had no snow this winter, until now. I can put it in the garage and summon bright warm sunny days, or leave it out and bring on fierce storms. In the summer when it can’t snow, leaving it out usually brings on freak summer storms, hail, and hurricanes. A few years ago I garaged it most of the time and brought on an uprecedented drought due to lack of rain the whole summer. Last summer I tried leaving it out in the driveway, and caused record rainfall and widespread flooding in some areas, for which I apologize.
I sure hope things clear up for you by April 1. Nobody needs an Easter Nor’Easter.
Oh, there’s another one shaping up for mid-week coming up.
Projammer Quite frankly, it is a good weeding process! The gentleman with whom I am presently sharing company came equipped with his own cats and overstuffed bookcases
**
Lightray** I don’t know if this is helpful, but I started having ocular migraines shortly after I finished the hell that is called puberty. As I understand, they are often caused by a shift in hormone levels. I have never progressed to the horrible pain migraines I have heard about. They are inconvenient when happening and I get a minor headaches that I can tell caused by eye strain. Many people never progress to the bad ones.
I understand that might change when I go through the hell that is called menopause and that they will probably lessen in frequency or even go away completely.
With the pollen count so high, it might not be so easy to tell, but do you get a smell or taste before the lights starts?
I smell orange blossoms and a friend has said she tastes licorice. These are not strong smells or tastes, just something that tickles your brain. When that happens to me, I take Benadryl and ice my forehead and the back of my neck. An ice pack on the top of my head is always helpful. What I am trying to do is cause vascular constriction which often helps lessen the time I am staring at flashing lights. Sometimes, if I react fast enough, I can stop the lights.
There are no promises implied with my advice. If you take it and it works, great! If you try it and it doesn’t work, I really hope you can find something that works for you.
insert groan here
You say that but it has happened before. No one was amused by the prank.
I remember that one - I didn’t have my boots with me, so my boyfriend (now husband) had to carry me over the giant puddles when it immediately started to melt. I’m happy to be back on the west coast in a place where we average one or two snows per year at most.
Last I heard they hadn’t decided whether it’s actually going to hit us or just give us a glancing blow. They also said chance of mostly rain, which I’ll gladly take.
I now know why snowbirding to Florida is common thing in these parts, LOL.
We got slammed with one some 20 years ago, IIRC, in early April. I was trapped at work. Nobody could leave until they plowed out the parking lot.
Oh no. I’ve started having ocular migraines at the end of last year. Please don’t let this be a hormone shift. I’m only 38, I’m too young for perimenopause. 
Also the last time I had a major hormone change in puberty it activated my autoimmune disease and I’m not ready for it to come back again.
Well, since this was my first ocular migrane ever, I didn’t really notice weirdness since it took me a while to realize what was going on. And, of course, I’m at a chemical plant in Crosby TX (remember that Arkema plant that caught on fire last flood? just down the road). So already an excuse for weird smells.
It had better not be hormonal changes. I’m a 50 year old guy, so hormonal changes for me probably means hypogonadism to go along with my hypothyroidism. Which would not be good.
Happily, it did not progress to a migrane headache, so doesn’t appear to have been an aura, just a scintillating scotoma. Which is, honestly, a coolly named affliction at least.
My husband is sick and depressed, and right now, I am out of energy to try and cheer him up.
No one should have to deal with being smugly preached at by vegans when a) they’re working, and b) someone they know, who is also vegan but not preachy, is standing behind them with his small children.
I’ve been vegetarian for over a decade, but those gits made me want to eat a steak on front of them.
I know that was a typo, but I can just imagine you knocking someone on their ass and then sitting on their chest while nomming down on a succulent ribeye.
That was a typo, wasn’t it?
It was, but I find your thinking inspiring.
It’s snowing here in VA.