In Which I Think the Groundhog Missed the Long-Range Forecast.....

 

See what I mean? It's February and we have crocuses. 

 

Last year was - this. 

Okay, this was actually February 19th of last year, and it was a snow squall, not a whole snowstorm. We got about an inch, albeit in something like less than ten minutes. But you get the idea. 

Today, however, it's both 60F and President's Day, which means our person isn't at work. The rest of the week is supposed to be less pleasant, however, and they're hinting about snow possibly for Saturday late. 

No, the whole road trip thing is supposed to be the following Saturday, March 4th. This coming Saturday is Tax Appointment Day, also known as The Day We Get All These Freaking Envelopes Off The Desk Day. 

Today, however, is a very non-manic Monday. 

Or would be if there weren't bees everywhere. I remember Sohalia telling me that elephants have a specific noise that means "There are bees here; let's leave immediately!" Why are elephants smarter than we are?

Celine: "We do have a noise like that."

Me: Really? What does it sound like?"

Celine: "Like this - THERE ARE BEES HERE, LET;' LEAVE IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!"

Okay, that was not one of my finest moments......

Faye was hanging out on the front porch when we went around. She was hoping either her Dad or her Papa would be home today, despite Maddy reminding her it's going to be awhile yet. They intended to come over with her, but got delayed in London. According to Maddy, something's going down in the Up. Wherever the Up is. 

It's kind of rough on her. She's really close to both of them. She's also actually the youngest out of all of us. (Lenore being a changeling and older than she seems, that is. I was told that she's over two hundred but for all intents and purposes is more like eleven or twelve. I'm not familiar with fairies and how they do things, so I have no idea.) Faye is about sixteen. I asked Maddy again and she said she doesn't expect Faye's Dad until maybe April or May and her Papa until maybe June. That's about the time Celine's sister Seren (aka Indigo) should be back from school. 

As for why they sent her here, Maddy said it was because it was safer for her to stay with her sisters while everything was going down - or Up? I have no idea who she meant, though, given that Faye is staying with her and Celine......

Bonus pic....

In Which - a possible road trip?!?!!!!

 

Okay, so - there is a very good possibility that we may be taking a road trip back to Woodstock in the very near future.

Let me elaborate...

My person (whose name is Beth, BTW) saw on the old Book of Face that the lead singer of one of her *favorite* bands from Back When is going to be in Woodstock on March 4th. 

Beth: Not "back when." They're back together!

Anyway, said band is called the Bongos and their lead singer, Richard Barone, has written several books and he's going to be in Woodstock talking about the very music scene we both missed (her because she was too young, me because, well, I kind of didn't exist back in the early 80s....) And since we have to be up in Poughkeepsie at what Maddy lovingly referred to as the "Arse-Crack of Dawn" that day, we're pretty much a third or so of the way there.

My person is mildly freaking out over the prospect because it involves one of her least favorite things to do, crossing a bridge (we're totally on the wrong side of the Hudson for this) and she's nervous as all heck about actually going but I don't think her seventeen-year-old self would ever, ever forgive her current self if she didn't, so....

Road trip!