The first daisy of spring
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spring has sprung
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Dear weather
This is what snow looks like (feel free to take your time looking at this images, examine them carefully):
Now, I would appreciate it if you could manage something like this. It will involve cold temperatures, and some precipitation (preferably localised in the alpine areas, but I’ll understand if you have to invoke a larger and more general area of rain). Really, it shouldn’t be too difficult. You managed to get it pretty cold about a month back, and you’ve had it raining fairly often over the last couple of weeks. Please, just see what you can do. Because you’re not reaching the performance goals outlined in the work agreement we had you sign earlier this year. And I’d hate to have to get rid of you.
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what i did on my weekend.
We went climbing on Sunday, at Annapolis Rocks, MD.
We climbed on rooves.
It was cold.
And it was snowing.
So we went home. The end.
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in slightly geekier news..
I just watched the first of the new series of Doctor Who and loved it (when shop dummies and wheelie bins go bad).
The weather isn’t looking particularly nice for climbing this weekend. It keeps looking like turning to Spring here (a nice sunny afternoon, some blue skies), then going “HAHA, FOOLED YOU AGAIN!” and being gloomy and raining for a week straight. All of the rain has led to flood warnings, and the Potomac River has been enroaching on the edges of Alexandria. I went for a ride along the bike path the other morning and several sections were under a few inches of water – there was no putting my feet up on the handlebars to get through either, I never would have made it out the other side just by cruising (although that would have created an amusing spectacle for passers-by).
I was hoping to go and look at some of the Cherry Blossom Festival festivities as well this weekend (DC has a Cherry Blossom Festival thanks to a gift of 3000 cherry trees from the Mayor of Tokyo in 1912), but the cherry trees seem to be determined not to bloom. And although I’m sure the festivities will be nice, I don’t think it will be quite the same if we’re just wandering around dead trees.
A fat and exotic looking gecko I spotted pathside while climbing in the Grampians. He sat long enough for a photo, then something in my precariously balanced pack fell to the ground, and he ran away. Not to be disloyal to my geckoes, but he did look very pretty.
Washington DC update – Still no word on plane tickets, so not sure when I’m going.
Weather update – Hot. My weather pixie has actually stripped down to a singlet. Jumping in a pool tonight.
Woody update – Construction hasn’t started yet.
Weird behaviour update – Saw a lady walking down Rathdown St in Carlton, wearing black one-piece swimmers and a bright pink towel. This was not an area where you’d usually see people walking around in bathing attire. It was not a particularly hot day. It was odd.