“Seasons are but just environmental moods.”
When I first woke up, I could hear the rain. I went back to bed and back to sleep. When next I woke, the rain had stopped and been replaced by muted light from the sun, but the sky is cloudy again. It will stay that way all day with the sun and clouds playing flip flop. It is warm, already in the 50’s.
I have an empty dance card for the next few days. I have nowhere I need to be until Monday. Next week is a busy uke week. Besides practice and my lesson, there are 3 concerts. I will definitely attend two of them.
When I was a kid, March was a boring month. It was the month between February vacation and April’s spring vacation so, despite having St. Patrick’s Day off, it felt like the longest month of endless days of school. The weather in March was always unpredictable as if the weather god, the storm god, couldn’t make up his mind. Some days were spring warm while other days were more like winter with chilly winds. I usually chose spring and wore a sweater under a spring jacket for my walk to school. That satisfied my mother.
My mother was less vigilant on Saturdays. I could get away with wearing just a sweater or just a jacket. Mostly on March Saturdays I’d ride my bike. When I was speeding down the hills, the wind would sometimes blow up the sleeves of my jacket, and I’d feel cold. I never admitted that to my mother. She would have demanded layers.
I loved my mother’s brownies. She always chocolate frosted them and then sprinkled jimmies on the top. The crunchy brownies on the corners were my favorites. I don’t remember my mother making a white cake. I just remember chocolate cakes with chocolate frosting. When I make a cake, it is always chocolate with chocolate frosting. That is heredity.
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March 15, 2024 at 2:10 pm
Hi Kat,
Last night we were spared from a storm that dropped hail the size of tennis balls beginning a few miles north of my house. The experts are trying to determine if a car that was flipped over in a parking lot at the community college was hit by a small tornado. Radar indicated possible rotation in the cell. Luckily no one was injured but lots of windshields and rear windows of cars were broken out by the hail. When you live at the southern end of tornado alley this kind of destruction can happen at anytime of the year, but especially in the spring.
I just read an article that the Dallas Ft. Worth metropolitan area has exceeded every other metropolitan area in population growth last year. We gained an additional 152,000 residents. This places our estimated population at 8.1 million people. Unfortunately, our road infrastructure and lack of affordable housing is being strained by the population growth.
My mother also spread chocolate frosting on her home made brownies. She never sprinkled the top with, “Jimmies” or sprinkles. I’m a chocolate purest. 🙂 Don’t need no stinking sprinkles to make me happy. 🙂
March 15, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Hi Bob,
I can’t remember when we last had hail stones. It has to be several years ago. There was a small tornado a few years back in the next town over, but it mostly damaged a motel by the water. Our most damaging storms are hurricanes and hurricane like winds. Nor’easters are the worst storms.
The cape is quite expensive when it comes to housing. Even winter rentals are costly. Young people just don’t have the means to live here. The house down the street from me is on the market for $666,000. It has no backyard to speak of. The house was built at the end of the lot leaving unusable space in front, quite the long driveway. It might be at the top cost as it has sat on the market a while.
Jimmies are chocolate here in New England. It is adding chocolate to chocolate to chocolate. Sprinkles are multi-colored.
March 15, 2024 at 7:13 pm
Ah, if they are chocolate I would love them. Since the stock market crash in 2009, the housing industry hasn’t built enough new housing stock anywhere. When the population is growing as fast as it is here, it will take years of building more homes to catch up.
March 15, 2024 at 11:34 pm
They are definitely chocolate!
An additional problem here is the lack of buildable land available. Many of the towns have bought land to keep as conservation lands. Brewster, the next town over, just paid a huge amount for a former sea camp with land right on the water. No towns want to save open land.