The weather people remind us that last year on March 17 we had 75 degrees (23.8 C). This morning when I took Katie-girl out for her morning jaunt it was 22 degrees (-5.55 C). What a difference a year makes.
The heat wave we experienced last March, no matter how much we enjoyed it, was a very bad thing. Many of our farmers had no crop last summer, most of us lost trees and shrubs. Though I long for spring I will wait, albeit impatiently, until the appropriate time for warm breezes and flowers. Meanwhile — Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of you! Enjoy some Irish Soda Bread and some forced forsythia that Katie and I cut from a bush in the yard last Sunday.
It’s blooming in the house today.
Change Is Hard 
March 17, 2013 at 8:23 am
Happy St.Patrick’s Day! I know!! Last Spring was sooo abnormal. I saw on the news that the Dexter tornado was a year ago and it is hard for me to think it was that warm last year! Maybe our more “seasonal” weather this year will mean that our summer won’t be a scorcher? I hope so!
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March 17, 2013 at 7:55 pm
I hope so too!
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March 17, 2013 at 8:35 am
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I love the forsythia – I never remember to cut some and bring it in. I was thinking about last year’s warm March today too. Nothing warm in sight next week here either.
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March 17, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Yours might be ready to bloom in the yard by now!
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March 17, 2013 at 8:45 am
I remember that crazy week or so last March. As enjoyable as it was, you are right, it messed a lot of stuff up in nature. HOWEVER, I wouldn’t mind some temperatures that are a little bit warmer! Happy St. Patty’s to you as well. How did you get a forced forsythia from outside?
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March 17, 2013 at 9:51 am
Karma: Just go out in the yard, cut some branches indiscriminately, bring inside, trim bottoms again and put in vase of water and wait! 🙂
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March 17, 2013 at 9:26 am
Thanks for the forsythia, Dawn. David tells me that his father, had he not died, would have been 110 years old today! Happy St. Paddy’s to you all!
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March 17, 2013 at 8:59 pm
Happy 110th to your fatherin-law! Enjoy the bit of sunny yellow…it will move north in its own time.
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March 17, 2013 at 10:23 am
Happy St Paddy’s Day Miss Katie , Dawn and Bruce. We have had high 70’s the last two days – it was wonderful – today of coarse is rain and back in the 50’s – still nice though.
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March 17, 2013 at 8:01 pm
We saw it was in the 70’s down in AL too and I was sad….got to 28 or so here. 😦
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March 17, 2013 at 10:48 am
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Cold here too, but the sunshine makes me happy. Is it too early to drink a Guiness?
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March 17, 2013 at 8:02 pm
We had sun too, so you should have sun tomorrow as well. I think you can drink a Guiness anytime now. We went out for supper, saw a bunch of green beer, smelled the cabbage..none of it was that appealing to me…I had yummy chicken instead.
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March 17, 2013 at 11:47 am
It’s a heat wave downstate 😉 It was 13 when we went out this morning, but it’s a sunny day and I suspect better for agriculture, so I’ll just wait for spring to arrive (or summer if we take last March into account!) in its own due time. Happy St. Paddy’s to ya!
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March 17, 2013 at 8:02 pm
Guess I should stop complaining about our 27 or 28! 🙂 But sun does make it all better.
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March 17, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Well put, Dawn. Last year was crazy — far too hot too early, far too dry. We were among those losing trees, and don’t get me started about the scarcity of veggies in our garden! We grumble about this season’s cold, but at least we’ve had rain to go along with it!
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March 17, 2013 at 8:04 pm
I’m afraid we lost our big (and 10 years old) Japanese maple…won’t know for sure till this spring. That will make me very very sad.
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March 17, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Everybody is talking about our heat wave last year! It was apparently 81 here, or some impossible number. I don’t even want to think about it. *grin* Happy St. Paddy’s day to you, Dawn, and glad it’s blooming in your house!
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March 17, 2013 at 8:05 pm
Yes, I remember enjoying it but thinking it was so wrong..as it turned out to be.
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March 18, 2013 at 8:54 am
Hope you had a great St. Patrick’s Day, Dawn. The Irish Soda Bread looks really yummy!
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March 19, 2013 at 7:16 am
Was yummy! Almost all gone now though.
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