april snow showers kill the flowers

A few weeks ago, the weather was beautiful. The grass turned green in a week. The flowers started blooming, and buds started growing on the trees. The nice weather, though, was just a tease. Sixties and seventies because thirties and forties again--fifty if we were lucky. And now there's a winter storm watch for my county. The rain we are getting now is supposed to turn to snow, and by tomorrow night/Thursday morning we may have four to eight inches of wet snow on the ground. Here's hoping the weather reports are drastically wrong this month. I want to see the flowers! I'm also hoping our geese don't get too cold--the goslings that were born here last year have returned and I really enjoy watching them knowing how small they were last year.

Other than the weather? I'm busy with meetings and homework and celebrations. The meetings are in preparation for the rest of my time in grad school, putting my committee together and getting my plan of study (POS) approved--that means they sign off on the classes I've taken and say I've had enough. The homework is just homework, and I'm trying to get it all done in the next two and a half weeks. And the celebrations are in honor of my friend. Last week, Stephanie defended her creative component and passed (a defense is a presentation and question/answer session, and her creative component is a project she had to complete in order to get her master's degree in addition to taking classes), so we had a celebration for her. Today, Dana defended her creative component and passed, so we're having a small celebration for her. We're combining her celebration with one for Scott, since he got his first article accepted at an academic journal. It'll just be dinner and drinks at the local Irish pub (we go all out). The posts this next two weeks will probably be sparse, so just stay tuned!