Monday, March 9, 2009

weather 1, me 0

i am ready for spring.

dismayed by predictions of snow on my second favorite day of the year ("spring forward" daylight savings day - second only to christmas), i spent saturday planting tulips, daffodils, and irises in a desperate attempt to ward off the evil snow spirits. the atmosphere might be against me, but i, i was determined to force spring into my little corner of the world.

this morning, i came out of the house to this:



apparently passive aggressiveness has limited effect on weather.

3 comments:

Tim and Heidi Thomas said...

oh, so sorry! that stinks. I had to drive downtown in this snow today...it was even a bit slippery in some areas! crazy weather...

lani said...

wow - i didn't realize it was slippery anywhere! it didn't seem to be sticking. yikes.

Tim and Heidi Thomas said...

yeah, it wasn't sticking here at all, but in downtown Portland, some of the side roads were just a bit slippery. Nothing significant, just made things interesting :)