What set this past February apart from
those that came before was the boredom factor. This one was so
boring...How boring was it? It was so boring, even the Weather
Channel lost interest! Only in hindsight, with that month now firmly
in my rear view mirror, can I even bear to talk about it.
Whenever the temperature outside hovers
around the fifty degree mark, I have a tendency to develop a nervous
tic in one eye. You see, the half century mark is just warm enough to
encourage me to venture outdoors, while still being cold enough to
make me regret the decision once I do. It foments internal anxiety
and thus causes my eye to twitch to and fro. (A condition that makes
it all but impossible to hold a conversation with another person as
they begin to focus more on that twitching than to anything I might
have to say). So, when I say that February was a real 'eye-twitcher',
I'm not just fooling around!
The average high for the month was 52F
with a low that was around 32F This made the mean temperature 41F
versus the 30 year average of 38F. (More evidence of global warming
or just another anomaly)? You make the call. Of greater concern, the
rainfall was really lacking at only 1.5 inches versus an average of
3. I found this worrying because of the predictions that much of the
Midwest may be entering a prolonged period of drought! (Perhaps March
will bail us out in that respect).
One pleasant observation, as March
arrived, was the daffodils in my yard that are getting ready to
bloom! This large clump in my yard come up every year on about the
first week in March and thus heralds in the first color of spring!
Before too long the Bartlett pear trees will be in bloom as will the
Forsythia. A welcome burst of activity and color after enduring the
blah months that came before.
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