[Magdalen] What is as Rare....

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Snow and hail in Syracuse one year after Memorial day... the traditional day 
to use as a demarcation for planting one's veggie garden *after* Memorial 
day.  Huge  investment for us at the time  of 4" potted then planted 
tomatoes, peppers, zucchini and cukes pummeled into compost :*

Lynn... also remembering the early October snow here in Houston in '09...

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 9:35 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] What is as Rare....

> I remember an exceedingly chilly night in July in Madison, WI, the 
> occasion
> of a display of northern lights the like of which I have never seen before
> or since, about which I have written before.
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> April 14 (two years ago) is the latest I can recall. We had lovely,
>> slow-falling Christmas-y snow that day. I remember watching one of our
>> cats watch the snow.
>>
>> And I was in a blizzard in Chicago one April 4 in the 1980s. I
>> remember waiting for a bus on Michigan Avenue with a group of people
>> who couldn't believe it. And helping an old lady hold on to a pole for
>> dear life in the wind. The city used to set up ropes to hold onto
>> while trying to walk in the Loop in the wind; could have used those
>> ropes that day.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Snow that late is essentially unheard of in the Upper Midwest.  April,
>> > certainly,
>> > and the occasional May storm, often timed with the opening of fishing
>> > season do occur.  But June?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>