Snow

In most of the country once the snow is gone (assuming you had any to begin with) its gone.  Not here it the great U.P.  The snow has been melted from my yard for about two weeks now and we haven't had significant snowfall for over a month.  Last night it started to snow.  Then it started to stick on the grass.  Then is started to stick to the pavement.  This morning I had had to SHOVEL.  Seriously Mother Nature?  I know that when the calendar reads spring on March 21 it doesn't mean spring has arrived in the U.P.  But now we are more than half way through April.  We have spring flowers blooming in the garden.  The hostas have started to poke out of the ground.  The robins are digging for worms.


Next week the city is supposed to pick up yard waste.  You aren't supposed to put it near the curb until one week before so this week I need to rake up the junk in the front yard.  The back yard is good but the trees in the front don't drop their leaves until after it snows in late fall so the yard is a mess.  I usually rake it up the week before pickup.  Not an issue.  This year...ISSUE.  My leaves are now covered with several inches of heavy, sloppy, wet snow.  It isn't supposed to warm up until Wednesday and we'll be lucky if the snow melts by the end of the week.  If it does I'll be raking on Easter.  YIPPIE!  Of course if the snow doesn't melt then we'll have to figure out how to haul it to the compost site.  Not that simple when you don't have a truck or a trailer. 


I guess I shouldn't complain.  Parts of the world are being ravaged by earthquakes and tsunamis.  Parts of the country are being torn apart by tornadoes, and hurricane season is just around the corner.  I should be thankful that the worst of our weather is just some rain and snow (and the rare flood).