W00t ! Summer time!
Well well. Happy (belated) Beltane/May Day/and whatever else. 
I am going to be very disappointed if it turns out that you don’t have a very fun and folklorique annual ceremony for this occasion. A song at least, and a bit of fire to welcome in the summertime etc.
If, as your name suggests, you play pipes, is there a bit of traditional marching around wearing a kilt and playing “Northern Piper’s Farewell to the Ice”? I hope there is. I like the idea of it.
There’s never a farewell to the ice on these parts. It just takes a brief summer holiday.
Ah! Oh well, fair enough. 
I hope you and all Piper family enjoy a season while the ice has gone away on holiday.
Edited to add: Is there any hope at all you could find a magical tune that has the meaning of “Northern Piper’s Strongly Felt Wish That The Ice Might Stay Away For Quite A Long Time”?
That tune’s English name is “My Yard Smells Like Six Months’ Worth Of The Dog Shit I Couldn’t Find Because It Was Covered With Snow”.
What is “snow”? 
The last ice.
Is that a good band name? Is this thread about global warming?
Ha! Watch it snow tomorrow.
StG
A couple of weeks ago we had an ice storm.
Yesterday, I thought we’d need to turn on the air conditioner.
We’ve gone straight from direst winter to summer, without any interval of spring. :eek:
Less than ten days ago we were all wearing winter coats and there was snow in the air, two days ago the furnace was coming on regularly.
Today the sun is shining and they are calling for it to reach 30 degrees Celsius! :eek:
UGH! We still have a small snowbank behind the house where the snow lands when it slides off the roof. Every day my husband is out there removing old dog crap that emerges as the snow bank slowly melts. Certain areas also reek of a winter’s worth of dog pee that has saturated the ground. All in all, it smells like the monkey house at the zoo!
Right.
The only time I have ice on my street is when the guy selling raspados comes around, and they don’t last very long.
The last ice left my yard about a week ago. I’ve already been out for golf once. There were still snowdrifts on the course, but it was playable.
We had ice-out on the lake this morning, almost a record for this lake. (Minnesota)
Below all the ice were about 250 dead fish (sheepshead). All the neighbors were at the shoreline with pitchforks, throwing them into the neighbor’s tractor scoop. He took them down the road and buried them in a farmer’s field. Nobody remembers that happening here.
And Monday I have an appointment booked to have my winter tires taken off!
You’re harshing my mellow!
:: sob ::
I think one of the characters in on of my screenplays will be a student who stands up on the first day of class, when everyone is introducing themselves and saying why they’re there at a university in a warm climate, and says, “I’m from Canada. And I hate cold.”
I can tell you that when the future wife and I were attending the U of Hawaii, we did have an unusually large number of Canadian classmates.
in 2 weeks we’ve bounced between a high of 50 and 90 degrees and back again … normally by this time its between 95-112 until oct
I had my own ice-out happy dance on Monday. That’s the same day I decided to take the flannel sheets and the electric blanket off the bed, because it hit 84 degrees.