Snow

In watching the weather patterns, the snow we have today and tomorrow means that come Sunday, the weather will be sunny and 60’s – or so close to 60ºF no one will notice.

This makes me very happy. My yard is littered with Zombie Maple appendages, and a warm weekend will give me the opportunity to chip them so I can use them as mulch in the spring gardens. I may even be able to remove a few more of the dead limbs from said Zombie Maple.

Then, if I’m ambitious enough, I can split some of the larger log segments, layout the garden, and prop up the neighbor’s fence.

Of course, snow today means December 31st will likely be either well below freezing, or icy slush.

The patterns being set now will determine what the weather will be like come April 1st – the only weekend this year where I’m truly interested in the weather. Our House is getting together to start the shifts in weather patterns we need to arrive at a comfortable April 1st weekend. It can rain – lightly. We’re OK with light rain, it keeps the dust down and sprouts the new grass seeds we’ll be planting on April 3rd, after everything’s all over, quite nicely. The wind can blow – we’re used to 40 mile an hour wind with 60 mile an hour gusts, so most any wind pattern is acceptable. We’ll take sun, overcast, and temperature ranges between 40ºF and 100ºF.

What we do not want is another tornado, another ice storm, or rain so heavy Itzl would sink to his eyeballs in it.

We’ve done this the last 3 years, and each year, we’ve had exactly the weather we’ve worked towards having. OK, honestly? It’s been a tad on the cold side at least one day of the event, and that first year, we had too much rain. We’re working on finetuning it so the weather will be just right. I think on Friday, we need it to be chilly, a slight breeze, and slightly overcast, with a light sprinkle during the night. Saturday should be sunny and hot – near 90’s if possible. Sunday should be cool again – 60’s and 70’s, stronger breeze, threatening rain so people linger less and buy more.

The vendors need to make enough profit to return next year, the performers need to make enough tips to buy what they need, and the food booth people need to make enough to consider adding new items to their menus.

Yes, yes, we are already planning for the OU Medieval Faire. Snowy winter days do that.

We’ll be building a small pirate ship for Itzl to ride in, in his little Bilge Rat costume. At least one day needs to be nice enough for him to do that. The other 2 days aren’t as critical. I haven’t decided what he’ll do the other 2 days, but most likely, he’ll be happiest as a bodice ornament. He’s too small to allow to walk on the ground. Careless feet will step on him if we let him on the ground.

By then, I should have a new camera to replace the one I dropped and smashed. Itzl did his job and informed me that I’d dropped it, but it was too heavy for him to pick up (it weighed almost as much as he did, and wasn’t much smaller than him). I told him he needed to warn me before I drop things so I don’t break them, but I don’t think Precognitive Psychic is in his job description.