Frozen bunny ears and death to the Ground Hog!

Well folks, it's nearly Easter weekend and even though 'spring' is officially supposed to start with the Vernal Equinox - this year it was on March 20 - the 'spiritual' start to spring is often around Easter.  I don't mean spiritual in a religious way, but rather as a 'we're all caught up in the spirit' kind of way.

This year, however, the Easter bunny - that arbiter of warm weather that makes us frisky and spreads eggs (a fertility symbol) around - has moved in with his/her rodent buddy the two-faced ground hog.

That punctilious pundit of meterological predictions got it REALLY wrong this year.  He foretold of six more weeks of winter the day named for him at the beginning of February and here it is nearly 12 weeks later and it's SNOWING in London, Ontario.

So that's it - spring has officially been cancelled! 

Is there any hope for summer?

141 certifiable people!

That's the number of folks who answered yes to the London Free Press poll yesterday: Are you enjoying April's snow?

That's right - 940 people answered the poll.  85% - the sane ones replied an emphatic NO!

So the crazy minority of 15% - or 141 people - said they enjoyed freezing and slipping, grey skies and chill winds, wilting spring flowers and scared squirrels.

Just goes to show you  . . .

:-(

Three new reasons to hate spring snow:

1)  My daffodils look so sad!  An inch or so of snow has accumulated in the front lawn, blanketing those trumpeting yellow buds with ugly white stuff - truly pathetic!

2)  Had to wear a full wrap-around-the-head scarf to protect freshly coifed hair from blizzard this a.m.  Straightened hair doesn't like earth-bound precipitation, so full hair protection measures (HPM) were called for!

3)  Sales girl yelled at me!  Walked into bridal shop on Dundas while passing by this a.m. - during snow storm - to check out some dresses.  She scampers towards me though I indicated that I was just looking.  "Can you just take off your shoes?"  And walk on your wet dirty floor to perhaps give you some of my hard-earned moola?  I don't think so!  Quickly my money and I left this retail establishment.

Sad, snowy day :-(

A flurry by any other name . . .

What's better than taking the boat out of storage on a windy day?  Doing it on a windy day when it suddenly starts snowing!  Yes, there was a flurry if wet snowflakes in Grand Bend today - April 16!

Yowza - that's all I can say!

Cyber fist pump

to our friends in Alberta!  Calgarians getting snow mid-April deserve our sympathy, empathy and undying wonderment on  . . . why the heck they live there!

(Lifting martini glass) this one's for you, Calgarians!

What's green and slimey and hits your windshield

Freezing frogs!  Or as the Weather Network puts it freezing fog - that's what's up for drivers this a.m. in jolly ol' London Town!

Don't ya love winter/spring?

Let's be careful out there!

Big flakes keep falling on my head

It's April 6th and counting people!

Just sayin'

It's snowing in south London

Yes, folks - on April 5 it's still snowing!

After a harrowing - and I mean that literally - drive home from Hamilton on Sunday night, I am officially ready for it to stop snowing for this winter.

Enough!

Uncle - I call uncle.

Are you ready for spring?

Hello Winter - it's me Margaret

I give