March Madness

is a big deal this time of year, especially at my alma mater, which won the big 12 championship. but the march madness i refer to is the strangeness of experiencing all four seasons of a year in one month and it's not even officially spring.

was it just a couple weeks ago that we were bundled to the nines and whining about the brief cold snap? with moderate temps, came the blustery winds that we experience in the fall. then came the balmy summer weather, with nice temps in the 70s and humidity. and although there is no question in my mind that spring time in kc is the loveliest time of the year, it is tempered with the severe weather, which normally occurs in april and may.

of course, no one in this area will be able to forget yesterday, with a number of tornados that cut a devastation path through the midwest, leaving behind millions in damage, destroyed property, and lost lives.

the adorable one and i are extremely fortunate that every time there is an outbreak of bad weather, it skirts to the north of us. which isn't to say that we are not glued, like mincemeat vixen's chinchilla to our local weather talking heads. most people don't realize, even those that live here in town, that our house is practically in a little valley, which serves as a lucky buffer zone from the bad weather that churns around us.

as for today? it's 40 degrees and we're headed back to a hard freeze. good thing i didn't put away my winter coat.