USVI-On-Line

oh yea, its gettin' warm up here! Can't wait for the next trip to STJ!!

<table><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/UG ... site"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_qWZLGYqzBRY/S4Xmr ... r><td>From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/surfrasch/V ... te">Virgin Island On Line</a></td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/PQ ... site"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_qWZLGYqzBRY/S4Xmt ... r><td>From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/surfrasch/V ... te">Virgin Island On Line</a></td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/nL ... site"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qWZLGYqzBRY/S4Xmq ... r><td>From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/surfrasch/V ... te">Virgin Island On Line</a></td></tr></table>

That looks like heaven. We've been getting a snow storm every third day it seems.

Surfnh, did you miss the snow that Vermont got yesterday? Sugarbush reports 25 inches at the top of the trails yesterday. Friends of ours said it's the best conditions they've had in 6 years.

yes, it is warm but not in a good way. uur basement's got water coming in, I'm afraid to do laundry and overload the septic system... ugh.

i like the idea of spring in new england but not the reality of it.

We got a small amount of snow, about 6" before the rain hit us. Higher elevations got nailed I understand.

When we start seeing signs of spring, that means we made it through the nastiest part of winter....ie, Jan/Feb time period. It was really cold up here this year, spent way too much time dreaming about warm water in STJ. At some point in our lives, we'll evacuate N.E. for the Caribbean for those two months!

We love that "mud" sign, we've lived on a scenic dirt road here for 10 years and never had a warning sign at all! Everyone who lives here knows it gets muddy during the thaw, like duhhhh.....

Northern New England has five seasons’ summer, fall, winter and then mud from mid / late
February to April then in May Spring starts before we start all over with summer.

Mud season is great where else can you go from 60 mph to 10 mph (if you go to zero mph your knee deep in mud ) on a dirt road without letting off on the gas

When living in N.E., we would listen to old Bert & I skits. And I had a chance to see Marshall Dodge when in high school in CT. We had a various names for the season between winter and spring...and it wasn't Mud Season.


From Bert & I:

Having navigated his way through knee-deep mud in order to reach the mailbox at the end of the driveway, a Maine farmer glances at the river of mud known as the main road and notices an unidentified object, something small and grey, making its way slowly in his general direction. His curiosity piqued, he lingers, squinting up the road in an attempt to identify it.

A squirrel?

Nope, too darned small for a squirrel and a squirrel would probably move faster than this thing.

Woodchuck?

Nope, wrong color for a woodchuck. As it approaches he can see that it's actually his neighbor's familiar grey fedora hat which, having apparently been lost upstream, is slowly drifting his way.

Being of a neighborly disposition the farmer glances around and locates a fallen tree limb of sufficient length and heft to snag the misplaced chapeau. The road will surely be passable in another week or two, right? He’ll return the hat to its owner, then.

When the hat finally comes within reach he deftly snags it out of the mud only to reveal the neighbor's bald pate and boney features barely breaching the muddy road's surface.

“Kinda of a hard time to go for a walk on this road aint it?” says the farmer, “That it is!” replies his neighbor.

“But that aint the worst of it. I figured the mud was too deep for walking. The fact is, I aint afoot I’m on horseback!”

ha! love the story!

I guess I'd take the mud though rather than the cold! I grew up in the north, skiing all my life, but as I get older the cold really sucks.....