I said it. Didn’t I say it? Didn’t I just say that you can’t trust spring to arrive in April in New England? I did – I said it on Monday!
Technically, I said wrote that post on Saturday night, but I was right. On Monday morning, it started snowing. When I took Maddie out to conduct some business, she looked at the snow starting to cover the ground and looked at me, as if to say:
“I thought it was sitting season…”
A few hours later, when the Editor took Maddie back out, Maddie was happy to find 3-5 inches of snow covering the yard. One more day of play would happily replace one day of sitting.
This post is part of Linda G. Hill’s fun weekly series One-Liner Wednesday. If you have a one-liner, I’d encourage you to join in on the fun. You can follow this link to participate and to see the one-liners from the other participants.
This was on Sunday. Maddie was enjoying the warmth of the sun.
“This is the best!”
Faith and I were trying to play Backgammon when Maddie decided her hand had a better use.
Going out with Maddie first thing, has its benefits.
“This is where my cot goes. Why is there snow here?”
“Seriously, where did this stuff come from?”
“I don’t get it. We were sitting in the sun yesterday.”
“It’s snowing again. I thought it was done snowing.”
We had about 5″ of snow on Monday. It fell and, for the most part, it disappeared during the day.
This is not what April 2nd is supposed to look like.
These plants were hoping for some spring sunshine and a warm day.
April showers are supposed to bring flowers, not drifts.
Pristine, no longer. Maddie has been here.
Everything was nicely covered in a white blanket.
The picture of spring.
The Forsythia were not counting on this.
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Poor Maddie. Her joy is confused. Snow. Cot. Snow. Snow! Snow?! Definitely not Spring weather, Dan. Lovely photos. The moon has been showing her sultry thses last few mornings…
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Thanks Cheryl. Maddie has been confused. We’ve had to put the TunderShirt on a couple of times. She goes out and just looks at us with “I don’t understand” all over her face. Cold, wet, foggy today. I think I got some good pictures on the way into work, but I’m still wearing a winter coat.
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Poor dear. And you too, Dan. 😉I’m hoping for sunny skies for you pronto!
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Me too 😎
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Can we hope that this is Mother Nature’s last snow visit? The plants must be more confused than we are. Maddie sure covered what we were all thinking. :-) Is this a new one liner record – a post by Dan with less than 10 sentences?
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Ha ha – I was going to say “who’s counting?” but… We have buds on the lilacs. They seem to be trudging on toward green on schedule, but I hope they aren’t in for a rude reminder. We still have snow in the forecast, but also 50° days – I think anything that falls now will melt pretty fast.
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The weather gets more confusing each year! I know my plants are sure confused!
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It’s making less and less sense each year. I remember when spring was warm.
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Our spring is hotter by the minute – send SNOW!!!
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I’m feeling Maddie’s pain about not sitting outside in the warm sun. Instead…snow, cold and wind. I hope this winter weather heads back to northern Canada and the Arctic where it belongs. Spring deserves a chance to spend some time with us.
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I think we’re all crumbling about this weather. At least Maddie had a few minutes to run in the snow like a nut-case. But when we take her out, she looks over at her cot (still on the porch) and I think she’s sad.
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We may not have the snow, yet. (They are calling for flurries on Friday!!!) But we have the %^&*() cold!
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Sorry for the cold. We’ve had moderate temps in the afternoon here. Soon, Pam, spring is coming soon.
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I love snow pictures and Maddie pictures. Poor thing–no wonder she is confused!
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She dealt with it pretty well, but today we have thunderstorm conditions, so she’s a mess.
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*That* much snow, especially this late in the year is simply wrong…
Glad Maddie enjoyed it though. Hugs!
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Hugs back, Teagan. It was a confusing day. I watched it snow all day and got home and it was melted.
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It sure is pretty though. Hopefully the cold doesn’t kill all the new buds, and you’ll have a later spring, but a beautiful one.
It has poured sometimes here on my birthday in May, so we’ll see how it goes. We’re supposed to have rain this week-end and I’m willing to bet everyone thought we’d seen the last of the rain for the year. :)
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Thanks Deborah. At this point, it snows then it melts. This was almost all gone by the time I got home from work. More snow is in the forecast for Friday, but it won’t last.
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Aw, yeah, Maddie, it confuses the humans, too.
Our house is divided in half over whether the snow is acceptable in April. Grass is still greening, so … :)
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What little grass we have is greening up. It’s all confusing the little red head.
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Well, I’m certainly glad it’s mostly gone. So that the new one will make that much more of an impression. ;) Nah, you deserve spring. You know how to backgammon! We learned it in Greece and did it all the time.
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I’ve been playing since the mid 70’s. I taught my wife and daughter. Both of whom are tough competition. Faith beat me two out of three games. We might see more snow on Friday. But it won’t last long.
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Wildlife, pets, people…all left scratching their heads as to why no one got the memo April has obviously been rescheduled to May. I don’t know if we’ll have to “make up the time.” That’s an awful lot of snow days to build into the calendar…then again, maybe we all should just disregard calendars going forward. Maddie obviously has made the most of things…if life serves you snow…play in it!
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I want to know what April did to make Mother Nature mad. I’m guessing it didn’t clean its room last year. Maddie does seem to go with the flow.
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Sweet Maddie, we’re all confused with this weather pattern. We wound up with about 4″ of the white stuff. When I was putting Murphy’s coat on, her expression was, “You gotta be kidding me!”
Dan, I think Mother Nature either needs to stop her meds or start taking some. She has gone ’round the bend and over the top!!
Still, you got some great photos for us to enjoy. Maddie is practically in a trance in the shot with Faith! Hope she gets some “cot weather” soon.
🔹Ginger🔹
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Thanks Ginger. I can imagine Murphy’s reaction to the vest. I think spring needs to find some courage and put on a show.
Maddie needs some quality cot time, to help her avoid those trance-like moments.
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Scooter loves the snow too. Dogs have no sense whatsoever. :(
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But they enjoy life :)
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I was surprised to see snow outside this morning as well.
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And, we have a little more in the forecast, Frank. I hope the weathermen are wrong.
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April fool!
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Possibly, John. That might be it.
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Let’s see now. The robins are here, motorcycles have been spotted, and the air has that spring-like quality to it. It was 60 degrees this morning, but dropped to 37 by 8 am, and snow is predicted for this afternoon. Fortunately, it’s not expected to stick. Good thing, too, ’cause winds are supposed to be 50-60 mph this afternoon. But that’s ok, ’cause with the drop in temperature, it will snow instead of rain and when the power goes out from the high winds, the dead sump pump won’t be as much of a problem. Welcome to spring in Western New York.
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It’s good you can look at the bright side, CM. I think spring will get its act together. I just hope it does it soon.
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Oh well, she’s happy to have snow by the look of it. :)
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She rolls with the punches.
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I don’t know why I always feel more tolerant of April’s weather transgressions than I do March. Although we didn’t get any snow – yet- the winds today were frightening. We have roof damage from today’s winds, but we can’t tell yet exactly how bad. In the meantime, I can only hope we don’t get too much wet stuff until the damage can be assessed and fixed.
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I hope the damage is minimal. We had very high winds yesterday and throughout the night. I don’t see any damage.
I think April always tends to end better. March had become almost a full month of winter here.
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Gilles doesn’t get home until late tonight so it will be tomorrow at the earliest before we find out how bad it is. I suppose I could go on the roof myself, now that the winds have died down, but ….
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My wife enforces a strict “no one on the roof unless both of us are home” rule. She also won’t go onto the roof, so that rule only applies to me.
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Your wife has an excellent rule and you have the good sense to follow it!
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We had a similar snowfall on Sunday. The flakes were ginormous. So pretty to watch.
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It is pretty, but I think I’ve seen enough. This all fell and mostly melted while I was at work. I didn’t even get to play with Maddie 🙁
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Well, it is pretty. Just tough to enjoy in April. Poor Maddie. Love the photos!
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It was pretty. Thanks Jennie.
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You’re welcome, Dan. Not quite over yet.
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Excellent photos Dan as always! I agree with Maddie…it’s sitting season please! We are overdue for sitting season! :)
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Ha! We are overdue. It’s time for some sun. These photos were taken by my wife. She’s actually a better photog than I am.
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Tell her she did a great job! :)
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Oh, what a happy Maddie! And, WOW, that moon-through-the-trees photo is phenomenal!
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Thanks Marian. The benefit of having to take the dog out is night sky photos.
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One word…UCK! ~ Lynn (wait…is “uck” really a word? Well it is when it describes snow in April!)
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I think ‘Uck’ works for snow in April, Lynn.
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Your Monday looked like our today. Two days ago gusts of winds over 60 mph and today it snowed. Oh man! You’re right …. this is the month for April showers. *sigh* Winter just does not want to leave this year. I LOVE that shot of the moon through the tree!!! Excellent shot, Dan! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Thanks Amy. We had snow again today 🙁
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😒 Dang! 😒
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We had a rain and snow mix last night here in Tennessee. I think spring has been delayed this year.
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Is it normal for you to get snow there?
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We expect a little snow but Tennessee’s big thing is ice storms. A few years ago we had over that shut down the town for a few days.
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Ice storms are the worst.
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