Winter suddenly returns…

Briefly, too, if the forecast means anything. And the forecast saw today’s weather coming a week ago. It should hardly be surprising, it’s only March, but the days have been warm and golden long enough that people are tempted to say right out loud that winter’s over and summer’s early.

Of course I piled all my firewood outdoors and tore the shed down, so now it’s all in a big soggy pile. Guess I could dig around and find some dry enough to burn, but I really don’t want the hassle of a fire. So I dragged out my Heater Buddy and expended one of those little “this won’t get you through the night” camping bottles of propane. The irony is that by the standards of an ordinary March, the day is actually fairly clement. Windy, though, and supposed to get windier still, and it remains to be seen whether we’re done with the rain and snow and freezing rain. So I’m cocooning indoors and catching up on my reading.

The heavy overcast will provide the first good test of how my solar panels cope with the newly-expanded battery bank, at last somewhat depleted, once the sun comes back which it’s supposed to tomorrow. So it’s all good, but I really don’t have anything to write about today.

Normally when the day is too boring to provide blogfodder I spend time online looking for news to gas about, but all the news is more boring yet. I’m not quite that devoted to being entertaining. Except for this, which is too hilarious to need any commentary from me. So until such time as something happens worth writing about, here’s Joel: Checking in and signing off.