HIPPYVALLEY

I drove through the East Quabbin hill towns yesterday. Wilderness with scattered houses. It’s so rural. Good sandwiches at Petersham Country Store though.

It's autumn in reverse, it's amazing!

Nobody in SNE is hitting 90 next week.

Maybe in the lower Ohio Valley…

Disaster Saturday in Greenfield so far. Hopefully, we clear out a bit for the afternoon.

Steady light rain and drizzle all morning N of RT 2.

Today’s Boston Globe has a good article about the May 1977 snowstorm. here’s the link, but I’m pretty sure it’s probably paywalled: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/09/metro/mothers-day-snow-storm-1977-ma/

Overcast, 44°.

The rash can take a while to develop and there’s no guarantee you’ll have the rash, even if you do have Lyme or some other shitty tick born illness. Yeah, they’re everywhere and I feel like I say that every spring now.

Nice soaking sheet drizzle right now so that’s fine.

Believe me, I would love to live on the coast of Maine, but there’s just not enough warmth.

Week 3? Week 4? We just don’t know.

52° in Greenfield with some gusty wind. I’m still stubbornly rocking the shorts though.

Ya' a little over .20" definitely was a surprise.

Today is a stunner though. Went into work late so I could sit in the sun with my coffee and listen to the birds.