{"id":7721,"date":"2014-03-12T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2014-03-12T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:09:30","slug":"winter-winter-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=7721","title":{"rendered":"Winter, winter go away…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter 2013\/2014<\/h1>\n

Ugh! I’ve had it with this winter. It’s lasted waaaay tooooo looooong. Enough already, I say!<\/p>\n

Family and friends in the UK are posting pictures of daffodils, crocuses and snowdrops in bloom. Even the magnolia trees are in flower. What do we have here?<\/p>\n

Just another blizzard. What else is new this winter? The wind is high enough (and the gusts even worse) that the snow is falling horizontally. Couple that with the blowing snow on the ground and you don’t see very much.<\/p>\n

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Hubby’s car in front of the house. Mine is tucked up inside the garage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our street looking north towards the corner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The drive home from work was far from fun. The snowplows haven’t been out so about all you could do was keep it between the snowbanks (ice banks is more appropriate since we had a thaw before this latest freeze) and hope you were on the pavement.<\/p>\n

There are two places along the highway where it’s easy enough to drop your wheels off the asphalt in perfect conditions and lucky me, I found them both. Oh, and I had some yahoo driving a Ford Super Duty 4×4 that rode my ass most of the way. I was so tempted to jam on the brakes a couple of times to shift him, but that would have only succeeded in having him and his truck in the car with me.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave you with this comment…<\/p>\n

L’hiver et la neige… PHOOEY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter 2013\/2014 Ugh! I’ve had it with this winter. It’s lasted waaaay tooooo looooong. Enough already, I say! Family and friends in the UK are posting pictures of daffodils, crocuses and snowdrops in bloom. Even the magnolia trees are in flower. What do we have here? Just another blizzard. 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