ENOUGH ALREADY!

So maybe in a past life I did something so terribly wrong that I am being punished in this life. Maybe I have been talking too much about getting out of New England and moving to New Mexico so that Mother Nature is teaching me some cruel lesson about the grass not always being greener on the other side of the fence, by reminding me what it looks like to not see any grass. Maybe God or Allah or Buddha or Yahweh or whatever he/she prefers to be referred to as, is just giving me a not so subtle nudge westward. Maybe there really is something to all the talk about global warming causing climate shift and change. After all we just had one of the most humid summers ever in New England and now one of the most snowfall EVA months in January. Maybe I’m just sick and tired of winter.

So far in 2011, we have had 7, yes SEVEN snowstorms leaving at least 6 inches of snow per storm. That is not counting at least one or two that left an inch or so, nor does it count the storm with 8 inches that occurred the day before New Years Eve. Boston, which averages 40 inches of snow per winter, has twice that right now as the snow continues to fall. In today’s Atlantic Magazine web post, they detail all the different names given to snowstorms in this age of social media – Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, SnOMG a few of the examples. I understand the urban legend now that claims Inuit natives have like 47 different names for snow. I guess they should be consultants on the internet terms…

Our friends in Las Cruces told us this week that they were forecasting the annual Las Cruces Blizzard for this week. This is the picture they sent of their patio.

If you look very, very closely, you can see what appears to be a barely measurable dusting of the white stuff. We call that "a chance of flurries" in New England. They have bone chilling temperatures of 20 degrees at night and mid 50’s during the day. We had minus 14 degrees this past week and minus 9 degrees the day after and have had only 2 days in the last 6 weeks, yes 6 WEEKS where the temperature got above 32 degrees. Our friends will have to sweep off the patio. We have hours of snow shoveling ahead of us to be able to get out of our driveway. That is why I want to move to Las Cruces, to be able to laugh at New Englanders awaiting the next blizzard, and the next, and the next, and the next…

Now, THIS is a picture of a real snowstorm. This is our front porch. We expect to be able to use it sometime by around July after all the snow has melted.

This is a picture of our outdoor bonfire pit. There is a chimney, pile of wood and several chairs under there. As Mrsfabp said, no bonfire tonight!

Enough icicles to make an elf at the North Pole jealousness.

There is a car under that snow pile...