The weather is turning weird already.

This is rather late as it happened around the beginning of the week but what the heck? With all that’s going on right now I’ll probably be playing catch up for the rest of the summer.

Last weekend, after a bout of unusually warm weather for this time of year, we had two days of heavy wet snow occasionally mixed with rain and sleet. Afterward, somewhere around Tuesday, I found myself in a rather peculiar position.

I had to shovel the snow off the lawn in order to mow it.

The problem was that on a beautiful and sunny Tuesday morning with temps back in the middle 60s I was out in the yard looking at the too long grass that still had banks of snow on it here and there. I had mowed the lawn once already the week previous and, like it always does during the warm weather, the grass was growing a half an inch a day. What’s two days of wet and heavy to Spring grass anyway? Suffice it to say, it needed mowing–badly.

So here I was, out in jeans and a T-shirt on a warm Spring morning with birds chirping in the background and robins plucking worms from the ground, shoveling snow off the lawn so I could mow it later that afternoon. The way the temps were rising it was sure to be dried off enough to run the mower over it by 3:00 pm.

I wish I had gotten a picture of it but since I couldn’t shovel and take a picture of myself at the same time I had to let the opportunity pass by.

Today was near 80. Tomorrow will be in the lower 60s. Snow again on Friday or an inland hurricane on Saturday? Earthquake on Sunday? Will the lawn be smothered in volcanic ash next week? Should I even be asking these questions?