Spring Weather

(Originally published April 7, 1983)

Isn't this a wild spring? The strange weather seems to affect everyone. I am so confused I don't know whether to take an umbrella and rowboat to work or use the sled and skis.

Even the Easter bunny had problems. He finally made it to our house. I caught a glimpse of him - poor thing. He was clutching a life jacket, snorkel and floatation pillow in one arm and balancing a basket of wet eggs and soggy candy with the other. I swear, he had webbed feet!

This year the bunny coated the eggs with fluorescent paint. It makes the eggs easier to find under the two feet of snow that covered the front lawn. That glow-in-the-dark paint isn't a bad idea. The electricity has been off so much lately, that I use the eggs as markers to find my way around the house at night when the powers out.

Does anyone else have the trouble I do when the AC-DC stops flowing? When it happens to me, I can't remember what lights or appliances were on. Is the light switch supposed to be up for lights to be on, or down I ask myself.  I invariably get my answer at 3AM when the whole house begins churning: radio blaring, coffee perking, dryer humming and thumping with the tennis shoes I forgot, the television screen glowing and of course, every light in the house is on.

Each time this happens I vow to be more observant but I always forget. Come to think of it, no wonder there was a power outage -- I'll be my house was drawing all the power in the country!

-GRANNY