Sorry for the long absence, everyone. This has just been such a hectic winter, and so far the approaching spring doesn't look to be much calmer. We just as a 3 day nor'easter that dumped over 10 inches of rain on us. We were luckier than a lot of people. We're high enough not to have problems with flooding, but there were quite a few people with anywhere from 3 to 10 FEET of water in their basements. Check out some local news footage: http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO137752/

The rest of this week looks to be beautiful... which is typical after such a big storm. What makes this one such a huge pain even over and above all the flooding, is we had another nor'easter just a week prior that was more wind than rain. Gusts up to 90 miles an hours with sustained winds locally of 35-40mph were taking out trees left and right. A limb came down from one of our neighbors trees and when it snapped it sounded like a .38 going off. Guess we can definitely say March came in "like a lion!"

One the up side, while out in the yard picking up branches and lawn ornaments, I did notice the first flowers of spring in my garden. I'll post a couple of pictures later! And for the rest of the week we are looking at dry weather and climbing temps. The week started out on Sunday with a high of 30 and may end on Saturday with a high near 70! Gotta love spring time in New England :)