Good day to stay in

Cold, damp and raw with a steady rain - so we go to a rugby match. Of course with Ian playing that was a no brainer. This time Carol and I were accompanied by my brother David, his wife Carolyn and their son Daniel. I definitely wasn't jealous that I wasn't playing. Unfortunately Ian didn't play as much has he would have liked as he either dislocated or broke his left ring finger at the end joint. He'll have it checked out but at the least it's going to be tender for awhile. His team played a higher division team that after having fallen behind earlier gradually controlled the remainder of the match for a victory.

The high winds scare me but I need the breeze.

The wind was (and is now) blowing very strongly today. Left the office for a lunchtime walk via the a stairwell door onto the loading dock where the wind barreled over the adjoining retaining wall. I had to push the door open while it felt as though it would crush me if I didn't slip through quick enough. From there on the air was roaring about seemingly everywhere. I managed to get about a quarter mile while mostly hanging onto my hat with one hand as the other hand regularly guarded my glasses from flying off my face. Finally I had enough, peeled back from my original destination, cut down a couple of streets toward and into the Old Port, ducked into a corner Starbucks for a grande dark and settled onto a stool at a window bar-top to people watch before rejoining the battle at the cube farm.

Cuts like a knife

A south to north swath of mixed weather sliced through the region last night and left 2 inches of snow and about a 25 degree drop in temperature overnight. The local roads were crap, I believe the plow/sanders had been prematurely put away for the season. The whole thing sucked the life out of me. I've never trusted April weather and that has bared out again.

Spring is finally in the air and none too soon

Snow around the yard and the back fields is close to totally gone. Areas with any amount of snow were where the snowbeast targeted the auger chute. Yesterday was so nice with temps in the 60s and plenty of sunshine. It was a gorgeous day for our plans to drive over to New Hampshire to watch Ian and his rugby team play a match there. Today the weather swung the other way to mostly cool, cloudy and mid-day showers. That was fine, plenty to do inside though if there's good weather for the Easter weekend I may have to break out a rake.