April (Snow) Showers

How is it possible to have warmth return to the earth, and then be ravaged again by the snows of winter?

What kind of madness is this?

We woke up this morning to a soft blanket of white snow lying across the ground, and a wintry chill in the air. Every house and bush and tree was painted with it, and every car unfortunate enough to have spent the night outside. Of all the nights to leave the car parked outside, naturally this last was the one we inadvertently chose. Which meant brushing off the snow before we could go off to work this morning. Oh, woe is us!

Yet our dismay was not long-lived; just as Cheryl had predicted, the crystalline layer had dissipated by mid-afternoon, and then the boys and I were able to continue our backyard haying festival which had begun over the weekend. The ground was still saturated with moisture, though, which revealed a serious limitation in the ability of James's shoes to repel water; i.e. he had some big holes in the bottoms of his shoes. This resulted in a desire to immediately replace said shoes. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the boys and I went to the shoe store and purchased some "cool" shoes for James, then they spent some time practicing their parking skills in the mall lot: single-point, three-point, and parallel. The boys are definitely improving.

Now to work on their stick-shift skills.