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We are having jacket weather again, and today...in April, in Kentucky, we're having snow flurries!!! I don't think that's happened in a generation. And three of us girls had a birthday luncheon with our recently-retired organist, and it was a lot of fun. And I got to come outside, both then and later, with SNOW blowing all around me! I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy!!! [dancing around in delight e] (Got some old fave music playing...) What a wonderful day! Cold in April! 
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You didn't drive two ADHD kids across the mountain to Asheville at 8 on Sat AM so the kids could go to their Saturday classes at Asheville's branch of UNC, only to find the class had been cancelled because of half an inch of snow! GRRRRR. 78 mile round trip.
I coulda slept in!
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Quote: " April is the cruellest month", one of the artless thruths T.S Eliot wrote .( just a little effort to cheer you up ) 
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Why is April the cruellest month?
Just looking for y'all's opinions. I have my idea, but I'm interested in yours.
I will spill my beans eventually.
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As my posting Sunday is almost used up I will give you my answer directly. I would be interested in other opinions too. Never really thought about that before, even though I agreed with the line from the moment I first read it.
Eliot gives some reasons:
"Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
a little life etc. "
I agree with these lines, but for me there's more to it.
It's a cruel season because it's playing winter/summer all the time. One day of summer promise , four days of retreat into winter. Unsettling, uneven. As a child already I could not wait for spring to pass into summer. Looking at those green buds on the trees that took endless time to become leaves. I hated that.
I enjoy spring much better now, but still prefer the other three seasons.
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Well, I hate spring, not for itself, but for what it augurs. This cold has been a wonderful reprieve!!! The cruel part will come by the end of the week, when we're due to go back to warm weather.
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Hmm. I never thought of April as a particularly cruel month. I like it because of the change in colour - the sky and air seems brighter.
I find February can be a pretty cruel month as it is generally the coldest month of the year. There are times that your finger-tips can freeze in under a minute if you've no mittens on.
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-1 April is the month that I get my annual review/pay raise, which is always well below the annual cost of living increase.
-1 I stood out in the wind and cold for 5 hours watching my son’s track meet. Good hot cocoa barely raised my core temperature by a degree.
+1 I do love the red budding maples and saffron crocus though.
+1 My son did very well and did not injury himself during the competition, nor did any of his teammates, although with several fewer layers of clothes, they looked mighty cold.
Summery: 0.
It’s a wash, but I like it a bit warmer – no offense Jackie.
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I find February can be a pretty cruel month as it is generally the coldest month of the year. But it's the month when you really start noticing that the days are getting longer.
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Even Geoffrey Chaucer noted the stirrings of the soul in the springtime: WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages: Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmers for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes; And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The holy blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke. (It was an annotated version of The Canterbury Tales that kindled my interest in etymology, when I was a child).
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Because it is a fiendish trap! It feigns warmth enough to sprout flowers in Killin, only to entice the overly bold to wade in Loch Ness. 
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I find February can be a pretty cruel month as it is generally the coldest month of the year. But it's the month when you really start noticing that the days are getting longer. Aye, so you notice that it's colder for longer.
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Hi, Jackie! Still shivering down there ? Here we're having round 80 F. Springtime is flung around the corner. Summer is here.
Doc. Drat said: "post ahead" .
And daylight lasts till 10 PM. So over to hogwash.
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