All of a sudden, it’s summer — or is it only spring?

Less than a week after building a roaring fire in the woodstove, we now have temperatures in the 80s, and for the last few days, we haven’t had any wind! That in itself is startling, because we’ve been absolutely hammered by high winds all spring. It always does that here, sometimes more, sometimes less, but you have to understand that we haven’t been able to be outside at all, at least in a recreational sense, until a few days ago. Snow, ice, mud, wind, then BANG: I can walk outside in my shorts! Absolutely no gradation from one extreme to the other.

You know how 72 degrees Fahrenheit is supposed to be just perfect? Well, the day before yesterday, it was 72 degrees with 12 percent humidity, and that was, well, perfect. More than perfect, actually, because this came with incredible visibility all the way to the razor-sharp horizon. Such things have to be experienced to be believed.

UPDATE: Well, that didn’t last long!