Plink plink Tink tink

So I'll be sitting here in the apartment, all my lamps on just because it is generally gloomy outside. And then I'll hear something tapping within our stove's vent hood. If it sounds like 'plink plink plink' it is beginning to rain. If it sounds like 'tink tink tink' it's actually this.

hail.

We have more hail than I ever remember in the Midwest. Suddenly your rain or snow flurries will turn into little ice pellets. No big whoop, it lets up, the cars drive over it and it all melts. But c'mon, hail? And then it will stop for 3 minutes and some eerily bright sun will come out like this.

What? What is this?

For months our weather has seemed to straddle that line between Autumn/Winter and Winter/Spring. And now that it's March and we've sprung our clocks forward (which I forgot to do) it's especially unfair. What a tease! A couple weeks ago I wasn't wearing a coat and now hail! This is why people in the Northwest are said to drink so much coffee.

Hereby I enjoy drinking too much coffee and eating too many sweet breads. I need to paste up a beachy image over my desk to remember that warm weather will come eventually and requires preparation. Yes, if one would like to show her legs once the temps jump to 75 one random Spring day, she must go work out in that, that hail.

Ms. Karen Walker designed this look as the motivational source and due reward of getting one chocolate-eater's chubby winter fanny off the couch and to a gym.
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Fortunately she designs nice cold weather, all covered up looks that give some comfort to those of us who have skipped the gym and instead holed up with a box of Girl Scouts' Thin Mints (another March temptation). At least we can get our fashion kicks in the winter.
Keep that hail coming!