May 18, 2007

• Ahhh, Springtime!

  Actually, it is more like, “Awww darn!  Springtime.”

  The cats go out, eat grass, come in and puke it up on my bed or the floor.  The cats just go in and out and in and out, which can be inconvenient whether it is one of the ones who cries or scratches for me to get up and open the door, or one of those who can open the door for themselves.  When they do it, the door swings shut, almost, hanging up on the frame and leaving enough of a crack to let more mosquitoes in.  As if we need more mosquitoes in here.

  It is uncomfortably hot in here now.  I just got up to look — thermometer reads 73.4 F.  Yesterday was overcast and cool all day.  In the evening, the cloud cover began to break up and let what warmth we had down here float off into space.  I felt cold and kindled a fire in the woodstove.  The sun rose just after five this morning, and last night’s fire hasn’t completely burnt out yet.  Hot, hot, hot in here.  I’ll be outside soon, capturing some light in my digital camera.

  I try to be philosophical about it, but some of the effects of our weather have been getting to soft-hearted me.  The muskeg dried up before the frog eggs hatched out any tadpoles.  My bucket-of-frogspawn experiment hasn’t worked out.  Little green things poke out through the soil during the day and get nipped during the frosty nights.  My marvelous Old Fart defines “sentimentality” as “loving something more than God does.”  Mother Nature takes good care of me, but sometimes where the little greenies and the wiggly things are concerned, she seems like a heartless bitch.

  There have been wildfires coast-to-coast in the lower 48 for a month or two already, and now our Alaskan fire season has started.  The snowpack last winter was less than 50% of normal, cutting way down on spring runoff.  Rainfall is down, as well.  I think we’re in for some colorful sunsets.

  Back later….

  

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