Wednesday, January 29, 2020

SO True!

This funny mnemonic by poet Brian Bilston has been making the rounds of my Facebook friends:
Thirty days has September,
April, June, and November.
Unless a leap year is its fate,
February has twenty-eight.
All the rest have three days more,
excepting January,
which has six thousand,
one hundred and eighty-four.
In the past few weeks I can count on one hand the times I've seen the sun. We've had a series of storms come through, and although most of them haven't left a lot of precipitation there has been enough snow, sleet, and freezing rain to gum up traffic and disrupt plans.  Except for last Sunday (when it was in the mid-40s) high temperatures have been around freezing. All in all, miserable-enough to make it feel like the month will never end.

Five years ago today: Emergency Zit Zapper

9 comments:

  1. It's almost over, although it was sunny here today if very cold.

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  2. Still no snow ... but very cold here in the UK.

    God bless.

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  3. January has been incredibly rainy and miserable this year here too. Ode to summer coming early should be the next poem go around. Maybe I will write it myself. I think I"m molding as I write this.

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    1. My perception of your area is that it's gloomy a lot.

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  4. I feel for you. Today we have sunshine and the temp is 62 degrees--almost like summer! Ha!

    But the sun does feel good after so many gray, gloomy overcast days. No rain here, though, and it's getting a bit scary.

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    1. We usually get a temporary mid-January heat up. It didn't happen this year.

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  5. I count January as the longest month. My mother said it was February.

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