Snow?!

[altivo]

Admittedly, I've seen snow in May. It was in Michigan, a long time ago. But this afternoon it snowed here, hard enough to obscure visibility and with the wind blowing it sideways. temperature was about 35F at the time, so it melted as soon as it touched anything solid, but it certainly was snow.

This evening we watched Kiss Me Kate the 1952 film based on Cole Porter's Broadway musical. I like Cole Porter best of all the musical composers. His stories are funny and always multilayered, with a self-conscious sense of the absurd. Particularly good in this one is the song and dance number by the two mobsters, "Brush up your Shakespeare." (Keenan Wynne and James Whitmore)

I almost forgot it was Saturday, when I have to wind clocks. That's what happens when you don't have work to make you keep track of the days of the week. Could have done many useful things today, but instead I read books and played with computers. Shame on me.

Comments

[hrrunka]

I've seen snow here in April, May and June (though not all in the same year) before now, but at the moment we seem to be having a long warm dry spell. The garden's even getting to the point where it needs watering.

I find an occasional do-not-much day is good for un-winding, but I know what you mean about days of the week. I've keet my alarm radio on its working week schedule just so that I do remember when the weekend is...

[altivo]

Heh. Gary's frantic schedule usually keeps me well informed of the day of the week. Alas, it doesn't seem to do the same for him.

[schnee]

Over here, April has a reputation for weird, unpredictable weather; I don't recall that it actually snowed in April where I live, though.

[altivo]

Back in the 1970s I can remember having to sweep snow from my motorcycle in order to ride it to work on a May morning. I think it was about May 18 in fact, which is quite late. We had frost and ice in May here last year, which severely reduced the apple crops. That hasn't been normal though. Usually the first week of April is the end of snow, but last night we accumulated some very wet snow on the ground.

[moonhare]

Biggest April snowfall I remember was the day my youngest was born. Naturally we had ten inches of wet snow in the driveway when the blessed event began...

[altivo]

They said we'd have two inches accumulation after last night. In actuality, we had about a quarter inch of slush in well insulated or cooled areas, like car windshields and roofs or ground covered by leaves or grass. Otherwise, it all melted.