Keep your dadgum winter to yourself, wouldya!!!

Just because you folks generally kicked butt at the Olympics, don't mean that us nice warm bayou dwellers down here in Texas want some snow. I don't even own a bobsled, fer cryin' out loud.

I just spent the last week mowing grass and planting my garden in 70 degree temperatures, and now they are saying it'll be 27 on Wednesday morning. And just guess where it's coming from; Canukkianna, that's where!

My mahaw trees have been bloomed out for two weeks, and the peaches are starting as well. Our old mocking bird has been singing so loud in the mornings that he wakes us up, even with the windows closed. The dog already shed her undercoat, and the grackles are fighting for dryer lint and dog hair for nests already.

I guess it's too late to do anything about it all now, but next time, call first, wouldya?

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-- Lon Frank (lgal@exp.net), February 25, 2002

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Yeah, Tricia!! I mean...REALLY! I thought we were friends!! ThanksbutNOthanks...

Tonight's low is forecast to be right around 16°! Like Lon, I've spent the last week listening to all the many birds... watching the wildflowers pop up along the roadside and behind the Hilltop...digging out my "summer clothes"...and you decide to send us this???

Lon, methinks it's just a mean trick she's pulled on us so we'll raise our heads and more often...ya' think? :-)

It worked, too.

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Our friend, "T the C"/Shows affection in odd ways/Just "knock" next time, k? :-)

-- Brooke (BRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!@Hill.top), February 26, 2002.

Well, ya see.... it's like this. Them dagburned Siberians send us some weather and we REALLY don't wanna keep it. So we pass it off to whichever way the wind'll take it.

Sorry. (But not very >;)

I'm just on my way to tumble into the sack. I spent my weekend taking a CPR instructor's course and then worked days today and then went out this evening and my brain is still on overload! Hope y'all are well! (Even if cold!)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), February 26, 2002.

And now it's, like, gonna be cold over here.....like below evenfreezin' even.

Whatdayathinkthisis /////??????//////

February or something?

-- R. A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (racookpe@earthlink.net), February 26, 2002.

Dang, I really feel sorry for all you folks and your cold. Been 80 degrees the last week, and lovely! I been planting tomatoes and peppers and such, even tho last frost isn't normally til Mar 15. Lemme see ifn I can blow some warm winds your way~!

BTW, hope you all got to see the magnificent moon the last coupla nites! Quite spectalar from these parts!!

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 26, 2002.

Tricia! You are in SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much trouble! ;-)

And Lon, yer gettin off easy! They're saying it will be in the teens here tonight. I just pruned everything. It was 80 degrees just a few days ago. BTW, I finally went to Anahuac and High Island this past weekend just to see where they were. Is that where the birds fall out of the sky after crossing the water? When does that usually occur? We saw lots of alligators and even some Canuckian geese. I thought they must be confused until I heard the forecast for this week. Guess they're pretty smart after all. :-)

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), February 26, 2002.

I havent seen a single snow flake this whole damned winter :-( Pouting..

-- kritter (k@a.n), February 27, 2002.

Hey krit! Good to see you stranger~! How ya been?

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 27, 2002.

Kritter, come up my way... lots of snow flakes here. 'Course you gotta put up with the temperatures; we had a "high" yesterday of 0 degrees F (-18C for the with it ones :-)

All those living in Texas who think we send them our cold weather... HAH! They just get the fringes. Even we don't get the center, it stays somewhere around Whitehorse or Yellowknife. Thank goodness!!!

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), March 02, 2002.

The "fringe" is four inches deep and rising...

-- helen (out@in.a.howling.blizzard.looking.for.lost.animals), March 02, 2002.

White things might fall from the sky here tommorrow night.

NO! They're not Lon Frankenstein dandruff ......

-- R. A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (racookpe@earthlink.net), March 02, 2002.

Bumping in hopes that Lon will answer my question before he leaves on vacation. :-(

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), March 03, 2002.

Sorry Gayla. I really meant to answer, but it slipped what's left of my mind.

I was in High Island that weekend also. Just went down to eat at Steve's landing on the canal side of Crystal Beach. Nice little place with an outside deck just feet from where towboats glide by with their barges. Try the oyster and shrimp po-boy.

Anyway, in High Island, there is an old grove of oaks called "Smith's Woods". Some of it is owned and maintained by the Audubon Society, some is private and has a small motel. Just take any of the roads leading east off the main highway and you'll get to it. This is where the warbler fallout occurs. It's the first trees the birds see after migrating back across the gulf from Mexico. I'm not sure when it is, though. A web search will surely turn up some good info for you.

If you plan to go, let me know when, and I'll meet you there if I can.

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-- Lon Frank (lgal@exp.net), March 03, 2002.

Thanks Lon! Is that the same one they call 'Boy Scout' Woods? I think the one on the North side is called Smith Oaks Sanctuary. I'm going to try for the first weekend in April. Does that sound about right? I'll see what I can find online. (BTW, the trip with your brother sounds awesome! I hope you all have a wonderful time!) :-)

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), March 03, 2002.