Spring Back To Winter

Last year, April 2008, the Mayor’s yard looked like this:

Spring is an elusive thing which cannot be grasped when you live in the water wonderland of the midwest. It’s often very late arriving and then it’s very short lived. It seems like we can be snow shoveling one day in the blink of an eye it’s time to turn the air conditioning on.

This year the economy is keeping us all out of the shopping mall. It’s just as well, we can avoid the sight of the temptingly luscious spring clothing that always look so appealing after 6 months of sweaters and fleeces. More often than not Easter morning arrives and if you listen closely you’ll hear the sound of little girls all over
metro Detroit pitching fits and crying because their mamas are trying to convince their little angels that they need to wear something warmer. The customary egg hunts
are held whether there is snow on the ground or not.

Today, April 6, 2009 we woke up to this:

Did I mention that today is the first day of our “spring” break (formerly known as Easter vacation)? Oh yeah, not only do I get to freeze my patootie off shoveling snow but I get to do it with a house full of girls who will undoubtably be whining and moaning about how we are not vacationing somewhere warm again this year.

I’m going to go and find my happy place now.