Email submitted in it’s entirety, as a public service of course. I wonder if RD has submitted a panel idea yet? So much has changed since YK2007, I stay on their mailing list hoping it changes back. You’re welcome 😀
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The Crawdad Hole 
Just walked outside. Then right back in again.
When I went to bed last night, the storm was supposed to start at 9 am. Now the weather service has it starting at 3 pm. No sign of any snow yet. The sun is shining. I’m OK if the storm has changed its mind.
We just got that “wintry mix” at 3pm. Gloppy giant snow with rain. Shouldn’t hang around for long. Brings back memories of living in Lake Placid when the Rink Moms scheduled a mountain hike for Mother’s Day, ended up being a blizzard…in mid-May…so we hiked with car pools to a giant Mall in Plattsburgh instead. We had fun 🙂 Miss those rink mom days, like stage moms only more stealthy, with blades !
That’s cuz it’s all down here. I took this 2 days ago and had such hope…
I have crocuses peeking out here, but that’s never a good indicator winter weather is over. They get buried under snow at least once most springs It’s clouding over, and the temperature is going down. It’s been in the low 40s all day, and it’s slipped to 38, but still no snow. That’s good for the evening commuters anyway. I planned my whole day around being snowed in again. I even made beef pie last night so I’d have pie crust all made for quiche today.
A little bit of lore about crocuses from my repository of useless knowledge:
The ancient Greeks cultivated crocus flowers for their saffron (saffron is actually the stamen of the crocus flower, which takes forever to harvest, and accounts for the high cost of it today). The Saffron Crocus was sacred to the goddess Hecate, and her priests and priestesses dyed their ritual garments with it, which is why they are often depicted in yellow/orange chitons.
When Persephone was abducted by Hades, Demeter went apeshit and looked at the human race and said “Fuck you all – I’ve gotta go rescue my kid!” And the earth fell to ruin. No crops, no food, no herbs, no flowers. Try as she might, she couldn’t find her daughter, so she asked Hecate to ask Helios if he knew where Persephone might be. Helios spilled the beans, but the story gets complicated here. Demeter couldn’t go into the underworld safely, but Hecate was one of the guardians of the underworld so Demeter asked her to ride shotgun. Hecate accepted and they went under together, like Thelma and Louise but minus the cool T-bird.
They looked and looked, but Shady Hades didn’t want to give up his new girl so quickly, so he made the journey really treacherous. Demeter, still being connected to the earthly plane, heard the wailing of her people who were in a panic because nothing was sprouting, and I guess they were too fucking dumb to figure out how to plant, so they bitched and moaned to the point that both Demeter and Hecate were ready to pull their hair out.
Demeter was torn – should she continue to seek her daughter? Or should she abandon her in the underworld so she could fulfill her duties as Mother Nature and grow shit to feed her whiny kids. All of a sudden, Hecate said “Hold my beer!” And started running around willy-nilly, pushing the crocuses, her sacred flower, up from underworld until they broke through the surface of the earth. The people on earth relaxed, and Demeter and Hecate went on with their journey, again, like Thelma and Louise but with a happier ending.
Eventually, Demeter found Persephone, who had acquired a taste for pomegranate. (Among other things, lol) thus making this mad scene a yearly event, This is one of the earliest references to how crocuses became the harbinger of Spring, although the original myth uses much cleaner language than mine. If you got this far, thanks for reading and I hope it both amused and informed you
Anthony, if you had been teaching Greek Mythology when I went to school, I’d have paid attention. 🙂
I’ve always planted a clump of crocuses near our front steps so they’d get noticed when they first came up. We moved into our current house in December, and I figured we’d be without them for our first spring. But come spring there they were at the bottom of the stairs.
I can’t see Instagram anymore, since I won’t give them my phone number 😦
They don’t have mine, even though I usually post from my phone. Email only. Don’t need them snooping into my phone
Instagram used to be share friendly here? I can’t see them anymore 😦
Try refreshing the page and/Or deleting cookies? I can still see them even though I signed out of instagram
Yay! Great pictures Anthony!
If you’re on Instagram, message or follow. It’s my sanctuary from politics
I’m not on Instagram, and I can still see Anthony’s pic.
I still can’t see them and I signed on 😦
Might be your browser
hubby shoveled the driveway begore lunch
two hours later it’s completely covered again
Sorry for all your snow troubles! ❄️❄️❄️
I need to wash my vehicle (again). We had a snow last week and the local DPW must have decided they needed to clear out all remaining salt for the season. 🙄 My vehicle is encrusted. If someone needs my fingerprints, they can just lift them from the tailgate. It is just gross. My backup camera shows just a grey haze. Makes me realize just how much I use the darned thing.
I usually from and bear it but this winter is killing me
a democrat
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Down East too. It’s been a crappy winter 😦 in coastal Virginia too.
This September in DC, such a great time to visit too…..Yay, USA !
https://www.facebook.com/events/1738897306183636/
Field trip!
question for those who live in the Chicago area
is this article truth or bs?
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/379565-lessons-from-dan-lipinskis-victory
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/21/black-lives-matter-chicago/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social
WOW all you have to do in Chicago is riot, loot and they will put you in charge of police reform
who knew?
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-considers-making-walking-and-smoking-illegal
those who can not walk and chew gum consider new law
tee hee!!giggle!!
Meanwhile, over in TwitterLand….
Mystery heart is breaking … breaking … not …
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/03/reuters-trump-to-blame-for-canadas-immigration-problem/#more-244911
My. My. WTF???
Oh my word. The best rant ever.
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/dear-david-hogg/
100 stars. that was awesome
I know!!!!!!
I just read it. Now I’m lighting a cigarette. God, that was good 🤣
So good you almost feel guilty for enjoying it. Almost. *g*
I’ll join you Anthony, just finished reading it myself. Light…..long satisfying drag…..exhale.
👌
Glorious
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/brennan-trump-afraid-putin-they-may-have-something-him-personally
I would like to see brennan investigated down to his toenails. Then run out of town on a rail
Me too.
Trump can’t be embarrassed by any personal bullshit.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/18/imran-awan-house-hacking-intimidation-tampering/#pq=yMyTNc
when will something be done about this guy?
Hillary Clinton Tells Gun Control Group’s Followers To Attend March
Your Führer has spoken.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/379129-hillary-clinton-tells-gun-control-groups-followers-to-attend-march/
We have been without internet and phone all day, just came back. I was lost without it, lol. Too addicted.
We lost power and internet for a couple of hours here. Isn’t that odd. The NE gets slammed with snow, Florida loses power???? The high winds?
We had power, just lost internet and cell phone service, but just for AT&T. Whatever it was, took all day to repair.
Another great rant!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/21/zuckerbergs-fatal-error-not-leaving-everyone-hell-alone/
What a wonderful governor he is. What would we ever do without him? (Sarc)
He’s got one thing wrong – he shouldn’t be calling it a winter storm. This is spring for crying out loud!
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Cuomo Declares State Of Emergency For Winter Storm
The state of emergency affects New York City, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties
https://patch.com/new-york/massapequa/s/gdrpa/cuomo-declares-state-of-emergency-for-winter-storm
hubby says we’ve got 6.5 inches do far
still snowing
It just started here. 9 1/2 hours later than predicted. A gentle snow at this point.
Deputy AG Rosenstein was in on it. He needs to go!
this is a crafty way for us to side with FB, isn’t it?
No bitch, you derailed your campaign. STFU already, you whining, nagging bitch. You ARE the embodiment of the stereotype of a bitter ex-wife. ENOUGH FFS just shut up, you are giving all women a bad name.
Go walk in the woods. Roll around in your billions, curl up in your top shelf liquor bottles. Something, anything, but for God’s sake shut up and go away.
She really has made a mockery for so many things,it is horrendous, and I agree with every word you wrote. UNREAL
Except with cable and satellite TV in which case you are paying for the service and you are the product being sold to advertisers. TV channels are advertising venues. They should be paying us to tolerate them in our homes.
Just not buying the Austin story. Feels fake. No rea s on just gut.
It is really odd, I’ll say that. All solved, wrapped up nice and neat.
Just like that! poof bad guy all gone..
I am listening to all this bs about the call to Putin to congratulate him on his continuing as president of Russia. It was good manners to make that call.
the heads of state do not have to be BFFs, but there are going to be times that things happen where they will need to have conversations and maybe even work together to fix a mutual problem. Example isis, both countries consider them enemies.
We have all met people that we worked with , that we could not stand. We had a job to do and if it meant working together than that is what we had to do.
Do I think Putin is a good man, Hell NO. but we might need him along with China to contain rocket man in North Korea. We needed Russia to stop Germany in WW2 and Stalin was a lot worse than Putin.
just my opinion
To not do so is bad manners and would be seen as a slight. Plain and simple. Something most of us learned from our parents. But then the people complaining are the same ones that are anti home schooling and because they feel that the government should raise your children.
They also are the same ones who abort with abandon.
Which is a good thing for the gene pool and society. I mean what sort of evolutionary fool kills their own progeny?
Remember that huuuge todo in Congress, CNN, MSNBC when bronco bama said (while the mic was live) to the Russian guy, “tell your boss I’ll have more leeway once the election is over” ? Yeah, me neither.
I hope this works. this is 2 of my great grandsons today in the Philadelphia suburbs
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At least they are having fun in the snow!
Great shot, cute kids! You should be very proud, Helen!
thank you.
the oldest one already earned his first paycheck. a couple of years ago they were having a contest with kids broadcasting the weather. He won and got $100.00
Cuties!
Great-grandkids Wow!
They look like they are having a ball 😁
Beautiful children!
What great looking happy kids! You are a lucky great grandma.
lol
Fook Islam!
Richard the Lionheart is unavailable for comment.
are you even sensitive to the over 1100 women that have had acid thrown in their faces by you islamic friends in England lately?
3 down, 1,100 to go
What? Illegals when given a chance committed more crimes. I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.
According to the local weatherman, 49erDweet better have an ark handy.
This woman is more courageous than Hogglet and the crew-cut gal.
Love
It’s funny how nobody on the Left had a problem with Facebook until now.
I love how it just goes without saying that doing all this to help the “right cause” and the “right candidates” is perfectly fine, but then doing it for the “wrong” thing is the end of the world bad. It still shocks me how disconnected these people are from the world.
Haven’t they ever heard the phrase “What goes around comes around?”
https://www.weaselzippers.us/379203-flashback-2009-mark-zuckerberg-we-would-never-share-or-sell-user-data/
or that was then and this is now
Yes
Looks scary.
Fine. Can he clean my kitchen?
He’s more of a field hand.
How are his field goals?
You are incorrigible lmao
Is it me, or does he not look remotely AA?
What do you expect from these anti-Trump humpers?
Damn facts.
I have the book but I have not started reading it yet
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/21/peter-schweizer-explains-how-china-purchased-u-s-congress-as-a-trade-strategy/
He’s got the look.
That’s what we’ve been saying since Hogglet hit the scene.
New post up!