When I arose this morning the world outside had turned completely white. Three inches of snow covered every surface as far as the eye could see. The wind was driving more snow from sky to ground. Not a pretty sight on April 7th.
It wasn’t me that tempted fate! My snow pants remain waiting on the chair in the bedroom, just in case. My winter boots are set carefully by the door, in the ready. Somebody else out there jumped the gun, daring mother nature to retaliate. It does not do to make assumptions about the weather. I had my hopes, surely, but I won’t be putting away my winter gear for a few weeks to come.
We took our morning walk this morning in the falling snow, with ice and slush underfoot, and a brisk wind to remind us that mother nature does what she deems expedient.
A busy morning for me in the kitchen, lots of little things to do. Ginger did not approve. He appeared beside me several times, verbally chastising me each time. He followed me around, more verbal complaints. When I finally came into the living room to sit in my easy chair, he hopped up onto the couch where he could see me, crossed his front legs in front of him, sighed, and fell asleep. He had quite an exhausting morning trying to coral me into the living room and onto my chair!
Worldly
Weather
-5°C
Date: 11:00 AM EDT Tuesday 7 April 2026
Condition: Light Snow
Pressure: 102.5 kPa
Tendency: Rising
Temperature: -4.9°C
Dew point: -7.9°C
Humidity: 77%
Wind: NNW 39 gusts 51 km/h
Wind Chill: -13
Visibility: 8 km
Quote
“Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.”
Jefferson Davis
1808 – 1889
It sounds like Ginger loves his normal routine with you! We have cold weather 35 degrees F but it’s sunny. Spring is almost here!
Sandy, Ginger is a creature of habit. To think that he spent his first week with us hiding behind a bookcase, or trying to escape the house by running into the basement! The woman who gifted him to us had him since he was a kitten from the shelter. She told us he “doesn’t like men”. Attila is his favourite human, so I think it was the man in her life that he did not like, probably with very good reason. Now all he really dislikes is the vacuum cleaner, lol.
Brrrr… it is cold where you live too. Spring can arrive any time now!
My Milo thinks the vacuum cleaner is some sort of invader! The only thing he doesn’t like are bare feet. I didn’t get him until he was 1 1/2. As a rescue cat it was hard to get any information about that first 1 1/2 years.I was afraid he might have been kicked.But Milo likes both men and women. Ginger sounds like he’s a great cat!
That is interesting that Milo finds bare feet objectionable, one does wonder what our furry companions have experienced in life before we met them! Ginger was also a rescue cat, adopted as a small kitten and treated as a human baby, the results are obvious, he does think he is a human, or that we are cats, not sure which. Milo sounds like he is a great cat!
We’re back in the snow too. Not that it was ever gone, at least not in my yard and not on the streets in town. Still, what fell during the night may keep me home today. We’ll see what Scott says when he tries to drive to SouthForks to do chores this morning. -Kate
Kate, I thought of you yesterday morning when I looked out the window at snow! You are a lot further north than I am, which means your snow disappears later in the spring than it does here. Safety first when it comes to travel… I wonder if horse and buggy travel was safer on iffy road days, certainly it was slower 🙂