Temporarily at least.
It has been 10 degrees colder than normal around here since last November.
All Winter and now well over a month into “Spring”.
Up until last week the lows at night have stayed into the mid to low 30’s
The highs anywhere from 40 to a little over 50, on a good day.
Rain?
Almost constant.
Then yesterday, BOOM, high 80’s and Sunny.
Ya gotta love it.
It’s supposed to be a gorgeous day today and then go right back to cloudy, cool and wet.
Of course I have family things to do all day and night today so even if I wanted to I can’t get anything done.
Grand daughter’s birthday/ graduation party and then some “Dance” performance I gotta sit through later.
Don’t know how much of that my lower back is going to be able to take but I’m going to give it a shot, she’s off the the most liberal college in Oregon this Summer so this is my last shot at seeing her before she goes over the edge.
I was sitting out front performing my morning ritual of a smoke and coffee a few minutes ago, looking around and listening to the cat whine for attention when I heard a Woodpecker hammering away on a neighbor’s tree somewhere nearby.
The first one this year so far.
The little decorative Cherry tree in the front yard is in full bloom, as is the bigger Sour Cherry tree that very rarely sets any fruit over against the neighbor’s property line.
Ain’t it pretty?
Yeah, it’s pretty, a pretty huge pain in the ass.
It’s been grafted so there are two trees in one and the thing just makes a GIANT mess.
A wind storm a couple years ago almost knocked it over so it has a pretty good lean to it. The next one will finish it.
Those little blossoms eventually fall off and completely cover the front yard and especially the sidewalk leading to the front door right next to the garage.
They pile up in drifts like snow.
It always rains at some point in this process and they stick to EVERYTHING.
The sidewalk, the outside wall of the garage, your feet and even the fucking cat.
The tree is out of control to begin with and needs a severe pruning but the owners refuse to pay to have anything trimmed around here.
Some of the branches are actually rubbing up against the house right at the roof line and will soon start rubbing on the roofing material.
Not my problem.
Those blooms however, are a Huge problem.
They wind up in the house no matter how many times I clean that shit up.
I literally have to get the pressure washer out to get them off the cement.
So yeah, Spring has Sprung and the Ibuprofen will flow right along with it.
Pretty to look at though
“…the most liberal college in Oregon…”
She’s going to Reed?
Or, are you referring to The University of California at Eugene?
Was a lovely day here yesterday. I finished the primary mowing in the back yard and realized I was sweating to beat Hell, so I checked the back yard temperature and saw it was 90. Hillsboro Airport is less than 2 miles north, and it was 88 there.
So I said, “Fuck it” and mowed the front, which is almost completely in shade.
I have one of those “giant mess” trees in front. Puts out trillions of little white flowers and then drops them over everything. Also drops sap, but Citrol takes care of that.
I’ll get the secondary mowing and trimming done in the back today.
I was a’thinking of Portland State… I went there. I have permanent, calloused inner cheeks and tongue for biting same. Closest graduate school to where I worked and lived. I do think U of O is by far the worse lib haven.
yeah, we have the same trees over this way, pain in the ass.
Yep! Looks like Spring finally won the custody battle!!
We had a couple days of near 90 near the beginning of the month here in central New England and then some days to a week or so of more spring like temps. Now, at the ass end of April we’re back to late winter, early spring temps, especially over night. I had the heat shut off around April 7th, but had to relight the fires this past week for the morning warm up.
Springtime in west Texas means blowing dirt. Actually from mid November to mid July. This place should’ve been left to the Indians and buffalo.
The news used to recap the number of days the year before, and predict the number of days for the new year up in Lubbock. I don’t miss that very much. But a constant wind makes me homesick. It’s really weird.
I’d tell your grand daughter exactly that. “I’m gonna miss the girl I know. After you are indoctrinated at college, you won’t be the same. Unless you can keep your head and resist it.”
Friday, I pulled a “Phil” and made a fairly admirable dent in rearranging, cleaning and purging junk in the garage and the weather was fairly warm. Saturday I went to go back out there and do some more but it was 85 & sunny so the motorcycle got washed and waxed and off we went. The garage can wait until Monday.
How very Japanese, Phil. It’s autumn here in Australia, and while down in the southern states it gets quite cool, up closer to the equator it has dropped down to 22C overnight of recent days (about 72F), so I had to pull my blankie out to keep my poor toes from getting frostbite. I dunno what day winter is tipped to be this year, but I’m looking forward to it. Whitefella weather is from May 1st to September 30th at most, and I enjoy every day of it.
Cederq is going to be happy that you’re all enjoying spring, ‘cos that means that the grossly fat lesbians will be out ventilating their hairy armpits, he’ll be able to get a perve on their floppy fat boobs. You ever noticed that of the chick pics he posts, most of them are the fat (not just chubby), hairy lesbian Democrat variety?
Deathray is right, between the Hillary fanboy thing and the fat cheesy les-be-friends pics, I reckon that the boy has some sort of a complex.
Phil, I think that In order to straighten Cederq out, you ought to post more pics of cute redheads, with large lung capacity, yer pal Irish could probably point you in the right direction there.
Say, with all them cherry blossoms falling, you better watch out for kamikaze strikes.
Who put the quarters in you?