Another American Adventure: scraping ice in the middle of May

Monday, May 13, 2013

scraping ice in the middle of May

Not a lot, but ice nonetheless, on the windshield this morning!

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BarbaraMay 13, 2013 at 1:15 PM
We've got a frost warning for tonight. No comment, indeed.
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beth cioffolettiMay 13, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Going to freezing again tonight here as well. I don't think it went above 41 deg F today. Brrrr! I had to dig my hat and sweater out of a suitcase that I had already packed up.
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BarbaraMay 13, 2013 at 7:14 PM
I closed the outside (storm) windows in my apartment and got such a dirty look from Humphrey. I think they enjoy sniffing the Spring air. It will go down to freezing tonight. It feels nice and comfy inside now.
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.