Spring has sprung
Mar. 11th, 2006 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinhuviel"Spring has sprung
Fall has fell
Summer's here
And it's hotter than hell."
That was the poem my Granny used to recite right around this time each year. And, from a friend I used to work with at BMG:
"Spring has sprung
The grass has rizz
I wonder where
The flowers is?"
This is the only thing that makes me smile this time of year. While others are awash in glee over the warming and lengthening of the days, I find myself growing more withdrawn, angry, and depressed. Maybe I'm a true Crone by nature and in deepest caverns of my heart, but I'm only truly happy when the leaves are turning and the air holds a distinct crispness.
We've had no Winter to speak of and already my grass needs to be cut. Already the fleas are coming on full force. Already the bees are hovering around the front porch. Already the heat is pressing in. The further south Aunt Tudi and I drove today, the warmer it got. By the time we reached Moncks Corner, it was 83 degrees locally. That's not right.
Where's my snow? Where's the bonechilling wind and grey days? What happened to my Winter?
And who will come and cut my grass?
Fall has fell
Summer's here
And it's hotter than hell."
That was the poem my Granny used to recite right around this time each year. And, from a friend I used to work with at BMG:
"Spring has sprung
The grass has rizz
I wonder where
The flowers is?"
This is the only thing that makes me smile this time of year. While others are awash in glee over the warming and lengthening of the days, I find myself growing more withdrawn, angry, and depressed. Maybe I'm a true Crone by nature and in deepest caverns of my heart, but I'm only truly happy when the leaves are turning and the air holds a distinct crispness.
We've had no Winter to speak of and already my grass needs to be cut. Already the fleas are coming on full force. Already the bees are hovering around the front porch. Already the heat is pressing in. The further south Aunt Tudi and I drove today, the warmer it got. By the time we reached Moncks Corner, it was 83 degrees locally. That's not right.
Where's my snow? Where's the bonechilling wind and grey days? What happened to my Winter?
And who will come and cut my grass?
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Date: 2006-03-12 02:53 am (UTC)I remember when I was 4 years old, there was a by-god serious blizzard snowstorm for days and my grandfather had to take hay out to the cows or they would starve. I remember that selfsame grandfather talking about when he was a boy in SC, it snowed consistently every winter, a lot of the winter. This was almost 100 years ago (he was born in 1901 - no, I don't mean my great-grandfather, I mean my grandfather. He didn't have kids till he was in his 40s. We have long generations in my family.)
Anyway, the climate used to be different here. A lot different. In the lifetime of someone I knew. That's scary.
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Date: 2006-03-12 03:12 pm (UTC)Tell that to Greenland... AAARRRRGH!!!!!
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Date: 2006-03-12 02:55 am (UTC)This made me smile. My Dad used to say:
"Spring has sprung
The grass has rizz
I wonder where
The birdies is?
The bird is on the wing.
But that's absurd
The wing is on the bird!"
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Date: 2006-03-12 03:06 am (UTC)last time it snowed in March in the San Francisco Bay Area was OVER 100 YEARS AGO. it just doesn't get that cold here typically; winter is usually Monsoon Season in the west.
if this isn't a sign of global warming, i don't know what is.
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Date: 2006-03-12 03:15 pm (UTC)There's no such thing as Global Warming.
my version
Date: 2006-03-12 03:58 am (UTC)Fall has fell
Summer's here
And it's hotter than usual."
This is the way I always heard it; I thought this version was the joke. Ha, Ha.
Sorry, I have always liked spring, and fall. But spring better. Winter depresses me. But I don't want the global warming either.
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Date: 2006-03-12 03:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-12 04:35 am (UTC)but I'm only truly happy when the leaves are turning and the air holds a distinct crispness.
Totally. I hear ya. Florida SUCKS too. lets you and me move to a cabin where its nice and cold. ;)
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Date: 2006-03-12 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-12 08:45 pm (UTC)Speaking of which, dont know if you saw this icon that my bf T made for me...but I think its hysterical. I know you'll appreciate it.
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Date: 2006-03-12 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-12 10:48 am (UTC)I got your snow right here. *looks out of his window and stays inside all day*
(Also, I'd offer to come cut your grass if I could do it with a flame thrower, but then you'd say yes, and then where would I be.
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Date: 2006-03-12 03:18 pm (UTC)In my yard with a big honkin' flamethrower! Bwaaahahahah!
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Date: 2006-03-12 12:22 pm (UTC)"Sprin is sprung,
the grass is rizz
i wonder where the birdy is?
The little bird is on the wing
Thats absurd! The wing is on the bird!"
I like spring, and summer... but then it doesnt exactly get hot in the UK, certainly not compared to other places!! I think i was a cat in a past life, i like to curl up in a patch of sunlight and bask.
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Date: 2006-03-12 03:20 pm (UTC)