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Delight In the Buds

Delight in the buds popping out on the trees Bathe in a southerly breeze It's over eighty degrees The calendar cautions This is too early! 'Don't you dare enjoy this' Its countenance surly ... How long this weather may last is not for me to say I just know it's Chicago half a month before May ... O, perhaps it's all just a dream anyway ~ Checking the forecast, snow's due in two days ___________________________________________ Yesterday was 83 degrees, a record high temperature for Chicago on April 13. Today it hit 78 degrees. To- morrow (Saturday) it's supposed to be over 80 again... And Sunday, possibility of snow late in the evening.

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Linda Alice Fowler

Date: 4/15/2023 10:54:00 AM

LOL gw. A true roller coaster ride - we had our about 3 weeks ago - up, down, up, down :)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/15/2023 8:38:00 PM

up, down, up, down -- like a billy goat, as a friend used to say...

Ilene Bauer

Date: 4/15/2023 8:39:00 AM

nicely said, gershon! yes, this weather is crazy but there's not much we can do about it. no chance of snow here, but i'm glad the temps in the high 80's were not here to stay...

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/15/2023 8:35:00 PM

Yes, indeed. I think that tonight the weather's going to change in Chicago... Hope so. Too warm for April (for me, anyway). Stay cozy, Gershon

John Lawless

Date: 4/15/2023 5:52:00 AM

As in New England the same adage applies...."if ya don't like the "weathah" just wade a few minits"

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/15/2023 8:41:00 PM

The chowduh, man. I said, 'THE CHOWDUH!'

Daniel Turner

Date: 4/14/2023 7:25:00 PM

just cant please some people:)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/15/2023 8:42:00 PM

You certainly are right, Daniel ~ Defund the Please, Man

Deb M

Date: 4/14/2023 5:57:00 PM

Hi BB…l echo Shirleys comment! I noticed you made a mistake Gershon you wrote “his arsenal” IT’S “her arsenal” haha!!!!! Debx

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/15/2023 8:39:00 PM

Thank you for the correction. Do you for the 'Department of Corrections?!' lol. Miles of Smiles, gw

Panagiota Romios

Date: 4/14/2023 4:54:00 PM

Gershon, I honestly think that tween the obsession humanity has with the internet and “Climate Change Terrorists”…we get freaked out. Being your Nana and living in Chicago for forty tears, the weather has always been squirrelly at best. Besides, People kvetch over weather all the time, all over the world. Enjoy whatever is.yes, it might snow.kidding, do enjoy. Go with the flow . Pangie

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/15/2023 8:40:00 PM

Enjoy, engage, enable. ~ Dropped Dead in the Snowstorm

Panagiota Romios
Date: 4/15/2023 9:37:00 AM

Had to add…in 1960 there were not over 700 killed,like last year. I left Chicago in 1965 Enjoy the heat. Ouch.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/14/2023 5:04:00 PM

Chicago hasn't changed much, actually. Less snow and not as many cold snaps.. But 85 one day and 40 the next. That still happens a lot!

Shirley Hawkins

Date: 4/14/2023 3:16:00 PM

The weather in South Australia is very unpredictable too, Gershon We cannot control Nature and it has made that evident of late.

Shirley Hawkins
Date: 4/14/2023 5:21:00 PM

I could not agree more.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/14/2023 5:05:00 PM

Seems that God controls Nature, whereas he lets us run free... and perhaps Nature is one of the weapons in "His arsenal" to let us know whether we've been naughty or nice... ~ Just ramblin'