Originally Posted by HardyWeinberg

Ha! Sorry... There was some embedded sarcasm detectable pretty much only to me because we've been supposed to be getting rain/snow all week to make up our mountain snowpack shortfall and anyway that was another sunny day... (snowpack remains at ~1/3 of goal)

Today, also 32F, but the puddle in the driveway had a solid skim frozen across the top, also a daffodil blooming, and cloudcover was 100%.

I went to a MD appointment before work, 4 mile detour (roundtrip), and 2 miles of it on this road that is just terrible, uphill, no shoulder, on the way to a quarry so can get tailgated by tandem dumptrucks which already can barely climb the hill, or just stuck behind them because they really can't go faster than bike uphill speed even without tailgating a bike... no shoulder, but there is space to bail out if necessary, except for the I5 overpass, no bailing there. Anyway, made it there, back, and to the office not too late for the 1st meeting of the day...