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Monday, March 31, 2008 Spring Has Sprung There's nothing quite as magical or wonderful as the end of winter in Minnesota.  On Saturday night I dragged the Weber out of the garage, fired some dinner, and left the grill in the spot on the patio where it will sit (and, on weekends, cook) well into October.  Chao and his girlfriend are officially moving up here to the Twin Cities starting next week, which meant they needed to store a trailer full of stuff in the garage. I couldn't have been happier to hear this. Why? Because all winter long, whenever something needs to go from the house to the garage, it's too cold and dark out there for me to spend any time putting it in anything like the proper place, so I just kind of throw stuff in and dash back inside, leaving it in rather a state when spring comes. But Sunday, their need to store stuff meant we had two extra sets of hands when it came time to clean it out. Score! I basically just stayed out of their way, and instead busied myself with taking the patio furniture out of its long hibernation.  It was so nice, in fact, that Trash and I stayed out until it was time to make M. Small's lunch, raking and bagging leaves that had been buried under the permafrost since November.  We talked about putting down some grass seed early, but decided to give it another couple of weeks. And now this. What the fuck, Minnesota? April Fool's Day isn't until tomorrow, asshole. posted by M. Giant 7:51 PM 11 comments 11 Comments:
Oh, WORD, M. Giant! I sent photos of the scene outside my office window today because no one would have believed it otherwise.
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Oh yeah, word indeed. I blogged about the same, exact situation last week (with pictures, too) so I definitely feel your pain. Nothing worse than waking up on a "spring" morning to see everything outside looking like an Ansel Adams winter landscape.
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After the last snowing debacle, I decided to superstitiously refuse to put my chairs back out on the porch, since clearly when I did so, it snowed.
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Oh... HA HA HA ha ha ha ha, wait... what?
By Michigan didn't get the memo either.
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In Colorado, our snowiest months are March and April. It's not unusual for it to snow well into May. On Mother's Day a few years ago, we got eight inches of snow, and it's not unheard of to get snow close to Memorial Day.
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I don't care; I still miss MN and those psycho-crazy almost-spring days that made me vow, every year, that I was "outta there". Now that I've been gone nearly 8 years, I still miss it - but your story and knowing what the next picture would inevitably show just made me laugh harder and harder!
By @Katie - Oh, it's still out like a lamb...you know, white and fluffy.
By Wow, and I thought it was cold out here when the daytime high was 67
By It's not Minnesota's fault! It got confused by the leap day. Nature doesn't have leap days. As far as that snow is concerned, you'll take its April Fool's gag and you'll like it!
By I was visiting the Twin Cities for a library conference and some quality time with my sister. The snow was a surprise -- and my shoes got all wet trying to walk around the U! Good times!
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