Spring Fever, 2019 Edition

“And just like that, winter was over.”

February was a day short of done and we didn’t need to run the wood pellet stove that night. For a psychotic moment I felt a little sad that Winter 2018-19 was drawing to a close—it had been a very good Christmas and a not entirely unproductive New Year—but I’m happy not to have to run the kerosene heater in my office in the morning.

The three days in a row of 50°+ F (10° C) have gone a long way towards melting off the snow that’s lingered since the storm we got on New Year’s Eve. We’ll have a low temperature of several degrees above freezing Thursday morning, a number we’re lucky to get for the high temperature in either February or January. 

So, I’m calling it. Winter 2018-19 is finished. Sure, maybe one more single-digit degree cold snap awaits, and I certainly hope we get more snow. But the week-long death-freezes which would make the furnace run nearly non-stop if it weren’t for the wood pellet stove are behind us. We’re good until November.

♫”There’s a feeling I get/When I look to the West/And my spirit is crying for....♫ dinner.”
My traveling for the sake of traveling days are long done, thank God.