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.

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[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.