Thursday, March 12, 2015

The lion, comes in, the lamb leaves....what does that look like again?

The Yankee saying: "In like a lion, our like a lamb" describes March weather. Each year we try to narrate March, identifying the characters one at a time. A lot of the time we are using either character to narrate the weather. "Pretty lamby to start of with, then we got hit"  or " Pretty burly lion led off March didn't it?" Even better " There wasn't really a lion at all, and we sure as hell haven't had any lambs!"
Our lawn chairs lay mangled on the eight feet of deck I shoveled of the other day. Sun hit us, and temps rose to almost 50 degrees. I wanted my deck back from old man winter. And I got it for two days. Is this our lion? Wind out of the north temps driven back down, the road froze back over. Or is there a lion somewhere else in March laying in the grass of the latter weeks of the month ready to pounce on winter weary homesteaders?  We got two days. I knew it wasn't going to last. If this is the lion so be it, if we haven't even had our roar, so be it. We got two days to cut the crap, stop hustling to make a fire in the morning, our driveway shrank back a bit, and we spent more time outside than all winter. So if there is a lamb in our future, great. If there is more lion, we will survive. We survive knowing that either of these creatures are possible in March, but April....April is the cruel month.

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