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News & ArtsWednesday, March 20, 2013
Life / The Weather Today Is the First Day of Spring!
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:50 AM
This morning in Seattle, it was fearsomely dark and raining insanely. Now the sun is making a concerted effort and puffy white clouds are skidding across the sky.
Time, again, for lovely leaves on those stick-branches!
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The other day a fellow stopped me in the street on my way to the gas station for lunch and said "Hey! That tree there! You see that tree?" He looked homeless and crazy, but I stopped anyways, and he went on to explain that every year that tree, which I have been walking past for fifteen years without noticing, bears hundreds and hundreds of delicious pears, which the owner bakes into pear tarts and gives to the homeless and hungry in the area. Just as he spoke, the sun came out. I felt like I was in a terrible TV commercial for the Lord or something. I liked it.
Hope for Spring. Hope for pears.
Hope for Spring. Hope for pears.
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@3, the gas station is the only place around here were you can get much change from a $20 bill after tip (I hope I'm not supposed to be tipping. Couple'a hot dogs and I'm good (I don't eat the buns). I'd love to eat better but I can't afford it -- the $ or calories.
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@6, I can afford better dinners that WiS, whose restaurant meals are undoubtedly made up at least 50% out of the spit, snot, and semen ("try the pudding, monsieur!") of the various restaurant workers who hate him, but not every goddamn day for lunch.
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As I rode my bike through the worst of it this morning from seven until eight thirty I just kept repeating my new, post-living-in-Spokane mantra: "at least it's not snow. At least it's not snow."
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In Saint Paul, the First Day of Spring greeted us with morning temperatures in the single digits and a high of 21.
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