Watching storms start to form over America

[sovay]

Today I paid my taxes and buried my umbrella. It was free from the World Wildlife Foundation, but I expected it to last more than a month. Having already cracked from the stress of the wind on my way to the post office, it snapped in half and blew inside out as I walked back from my dentist's appointment. After that it was a beautiful piece of conceptual art and absolutely no use at keeping off the rain: I gave it a state funeral in the trash can outside the Au Bon Pain on Cambridge Street. It had a wooden shaft, black metal struts, and a blue-and-white design of pandas. I felt bad for the pandas, but I think "decorative" is the least endangered species. I am told it's going to snow tonight.

ALL RIGHT, NEW ENGLAND, YOU CAN STOP NOW.

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[phi]

I've given up on carrying an umbrella after the winter when I lost four of them to wind damage.

I saw the snow last night! And spluttered in furious confusion at it!

[sovay]

I saw the snow last night! And spluttered in furious confusion at it!

There's still some sticking in our yard today! I know it can't be the latest snowfall recorded in Massachusetts, but I feel it may be the latest in my lifetime. Even the April Fool's Day Blizzard in 1997 was just that.