Brr

Why is it so cold in the middle of April?



Actually, let me start over for a second.

I realize that I tend to complain about a lot of things, from weather to leaf blowers to overly-enthusiastic trash collectors. However, when I find myself reaching for gloves and my full-length coat in the middle of April because my multiple t-shirt and fleece sweatshirt layers are ineffective at keeping me warm, I think I'm justified in giving that a mention.

It's not that I find the act of placing a coat on my body so burdensome that it succeeds in ruining my day; it's just that at this point, I would've expected spring (remember spring? it's that period that used to come between winter and summer before we all got careless and wrecked the planet and essentially sacrificed an entire season in favor of extra emissions) to have fully kicked in, and I guess I'm more than a tad disappointed that clearly, it hasn't.

But at the risk of coming off as overly negative, I will say the following: at least my multiple t-shirt/fleece/coat combo finally managed to do the trick, and for the entire twelve seconds during which I found myself outdoors late this afternoon, I was reasonably warm for most of them. Of course, it also poured on me out of nowhere, despite the fact that "drizzle" barely made the forecast. But I'm not complaining about that...just giving it a mention.