Tell me about it. The hostas that I planted last fall were just coming up. Now they’re all brown. I have (had?) a raintree sprout that was coming along nicely, that I hope will recover. Add to that two red maples, two dogwoods, and a couple of cypresses.
On top of that, I’m hearing the peach crop is devastated, too. I don’t grow them, but I sure do eat them.
I was mowing my lawn on a Wednesday. It was 78 degrees out.
Friday, the Indians home opened was called on account of snow.
It snowed and snowed and snowed. Four games ended up being called on account of snow, and the MLB sent the Tribe packing to Milwaukee to play their next series against the Angels.
We got something like 20".
I love snow. I just don’t like this sort of teasing weather.
I feel your pain.
On a fine Monday morning two weeks ago, I decided that Winter Was Over and went ahead and activated the insurance on my sweet, sweet convertible.
By Wednesday, we had 2 feet of snow.
By Sunday, it had snowed every day for nigh on a week, and we had 4 feet of snow.
We STILL have snow.
The lady at the insurance place laughed at me when I called to turn it off again :mad:
Tell me about it, Little Bird. I’m still stuck in Iowa City, and we got it, too.
Dammit, I want to go bike riding, not skiing!
Meh, it’ll melt quick. Still, it’s a pain in the ass, though.
hpmmph its beautiful really it is, clumpy wet goobers of frozen sky-snot.
Today I really gave my wiper arm a workout, low to hi speed, then intermittant low to hi plus the back wiper (which I never leave on ((im talking to you minivan drivers)) and i an so glad my snow tires are still on the car)
but in between those two 55 mi round trips to GRR airport between 10 and 3 pm ESlakeeffect time
I saw a male and female LOONS on the lake, saw them circle then dive under and come up, like a ballet. They even left a nice poop behind in tandem… a little later right before my second trip down to retrieve the flightless spouse shanghai bound busted…
I watched about 12 white swans float in from the snow and hang out in the shallows and feed during the snowstorm 
You can prolly get a refund for that time if you didn’t drive it at all. At least, that was the policy at the auto insurance place I worked at.
Not true. I’m odd and I’ve been fixed.
The weather gurus are calling for a foot (or more) of snow in Denver area starting tomorrow night. I’m with the OP.
I can’t find my slippers and my feet are cold. 
Although this:
absolutely made my day.
I want to know where that whole envirofascist-prognosticated global warming thing went. Wait, let me guess, the warm air that’s supposed to be here couldn’t get here because of some unusual change in wind patterns occurring due to the depletion of the ozone layer and all the warm air can’t figure out where to go because we drive cars too much. The cold air from Canada is in the United States and the warm air from the United States decided to take holiday in Venezuela. I say we adopt Lewis Black’s idea and build a giant wall along the Canadian border, because that’s where the cold air comes from.
Shame as it is, I have less-than-thrilling memories about snow lingering all the way until the last weeks of April in Chicago just 3-4 years ago … although there was no break in the seasonal shift. The snow may have refused to go away, but once it did, I know it didn’t come back a week later after several days in the mid to high 70’s. I was outside cycling, sweating in the sun, less than two weeks ago.
I want my apocryphal global warming back.
Obviously Little Bird is too young to remember the Blizzard of April 9, 1973. We missed school for at least three days and roads in southern Iowa were completely blocked by 2 feet of snow.
Ever since then, mid April has been my winter weather benchmark.
I seem to recall Carl Sagan, in the early days of global warming being mentioned, explaining that it seemed paradoxical, but colder winters actually was an effect of global warming. Something about getting extremes at both ends of the spectrum. Forget the technical details.
Oh, I know, Sagan started riding that boat a long time ago. He was probably the first big personality to get under the global warming issue. He talks about it in virtually all his books. I love Sagan … one of my favorite authors/personalities … but his politics became increasingly intrusive on his points later in his career. Ever read The Demon-Haunted World? I fully believe the idea of one weather extreme having an effect on the opposite extreme, but I was just taking potshots at the controversy of global warming in light of April snow after we were totally in the clear ten days ago.
I don’t think it’s global warming, I really think it’s Dubya’s orbital weather machine.
blizarrdedededed here yesterday, too, all afternoon. Heard record breaking 5 inches fell (record for this time of year) 'course by the time I was driving home (10 pm) no snow on the road at all (it’d melted off). I recall it snowing on May 8th one year 'back in the mid 70’s.