An Easter Sunday

 I recall a few sunrise services. Quite cool and damp. 

Naps later at least once during the inside Easter worship service.

Time to dig out my journals from 1990s.

MISSING what about the ICE.

 The precipitation ended as freezing rain. A silent accumulation. Silent except for the power outages.

Following morning revealed ice coated branches bending with added weight.

Everywhere pine, river birch and other trees broken.

The 2024 ice storm further south than forecast.

Spring but March spring still means snow.

 Snow all morning and now rain near the coast. Total liquid above one and one half inch so over a foot of snow  in the high elevations.

Total season snowfall will now be low but not the lowest recorded amount. When to stop expecting more snow?  April 20 and later.  

Spring is near.

Spring based on the sun rising due East, and setting due West.

For those at the equator the sun overhead at noon shifts from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere. Having said that, the precise position of the sun and of the moon high in the sky is difficult to discern. 

An aside for only me, my current one line one day journal is divided such that each page starts at new moon. My previous one line journal started as one line on each day meaning the first of each month shifted.

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dlj/   3/18/24

 

An interview of the best kind.

 Questions from a granddaughter. 

To hear her ask the questions a real delight.  dlj. 3/13/2024 

Two dates of birth (DOB) in 1961. WHEN? This March.

 Young in early 60's.  I was still jogging a 10 kilometer run on each birthday 55, 56, 57, up to maybe 63??

Now my current each day log shows I have walked most every fall, winter, spring   day   since April, 2019.

Each page of my log  has 27 lines (one day, one line). I just completed page 43.  

27 times 43 equals something over 1140 days of walking.

A record minimum snowfall for the the month (Portland, Maine)

 February 2024 even with 29 days had a record minimum total snow fall.

The liquid number was 0.67 and the snow was 0.6 inches.

MSP  showed 7 inches for the month with 6.9 falling on Valentine's Day, 2/14/2024.

Omaha showed  0.8 inches of snow for the month 

PWM  0.6

MSP 7 inches

OMA  0.8

dlj 3/2/2024

I am healing from a typical cold. Now in the drainage stage with the all day body ache yesterday.