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We’re getting hit with a Nor’easter that dumped over 8 inches of heavy, wet snow on us in about 3 hours this morning. The trees, which fortunately weren’t leaved out, didn’t take it well and we lost power at about 8am and, according to the power company can’t expect it to be restored until tomorrow morning. (I’m writing this while on the generator.) It appears we lost a few limbs, including the one that held up the grandkid’s swing, as well as a pear tree.

The birds were happy I filled the feeder last night and it looks like I’ll have to do it again, soon.

We’ve been in midst of lousy, atypical April weather for the last week–every night it drops into the low 20’s or high teens and every day we get a mix of sun and snow showers with temperatures in the mid30’s. Just enough to drop some snow on us which, generally, melts by the end of the day. The cause of this, according to the local TV weatherman, is a “cut-off low”–a low pressure system cut off from the Jet Stream that is sitting in Quebec and spinning cold, unstable air down to us out of midCanada. The trouble is that is more information than I really need.

Typically in April we get snow showers, sometimes even heavy snow, one day followed by sunny and warm days in the upper 50’s. As long as we know the weather is going to be like that, we always have hope that tomorrow will be better. However, the long-range forecast has been so accurate that it has been depressing, leaving no chance of hope for a better tomorrow. I sometimes wonder if we’d be better mentally better off if we just didn’t know what tomorrow’s weather was going to be.