Friday, April 8, 2011

April Fools
















As we were talking about the end of a long winter and spring finally arriving, the bottom fell out! Visions of those beautiful Mid-coast Maine summer days were dancing in my head. But "April Fools Day" fooled us all! In blew some more of the white stuff, and there was a big surprise in store for those of us living in Northern New England.















My little Toyota does not drive so well on slippery roads. And this day was no exception. I was unexpectedly 'home-bound' for the day as the snow just kept coming! We had about 8 inches of accumulation at our house, and I had to go searching for my snow boots just to get the mail.















I actually got out some lawn equipment the last Saturday in March -preparing it for use again. Previous snows had melted, and the grass was turning green . I even cranked up the motorcycle. But that was all premature, as this spring 'nor-easter' kept pounding away. You just never know ....