Scarlet Pimpernel

Haha! I actually remember the days of the old "traveler's advisory", ranging from icy conditions to a light/moderate snow event. Personally, I think the current "advisory" that they use is fine for the most part, it has a pretty wide latitude which I think is good. Including criteria for rush hour impacts. It essentially means an alert for a low to moderate impact event. One thing I'm glad they got rid of a few years ago was the "heavy snow warning", never seemed to quite fit in and was a bit confusing why that would be different from a "winter storm warning"...which itself already covers heavy snow (among other things). I swear sometime I once saw a map that had some areas with a heavy snow warning, others with a winter storm warning...for the same event and snow amounts (though winds may have been more the criteria for that).

So cute!!

Similar thing here for MoCo. They'll give kids in middle/high school a Pass/Incomplete for 4th quarter, but you have the option to have a traditional grade or a Pass/Incomplete for the entirety of the 2nd semester (grades were given for 3rd quarter, so some combination of that and 4th quarter P/Inc). School ends I think the end of next week if I remember the date correctly. We've opted for the actual grade, too, for 2nd semester. My daughter also took 2 AP exams, which were all online and shortened to like 45 minutes (normally they're a couple hours). There's some disgruntlement with the process, as those APs are not cheap and you're getting basically a "lite" version this time around due to the current situation. Also, there have been issues with submitting your final answers/essays but not getting recorded, and having to re-take it again later (this happened to my daughter, she took the AP Language and Composition a couple weeks ago, but the submission failed...so now she's having to re-take it this Friday!). It's been a bit of a cluster, for sure.

Go back to sleep, come back about December and see what's what by then! (Sneak preview: people complaining how we suck, winter is cancelled, fringed, etc.)

Oh wow...very sorry to hear that, PSU! I hope you are doing better and recovering OK, take care of yourself!

Oh...my...does that look TASTY!!

Maybe we flattened the curve of useless posts? Besides, it's summer, doesn't it normally get kind of thin in here unless there's anything severe going on or a tropical system? (ETA: Oh, and there's not much in the way of sports going on now either...) (ETA more: Personally, I think that wiener/Spaghettio image way back early in the month killed the thread!)

SNOW IN MAY!!! Holy cow, this is more that we got all season during actual winter!! . . . Nahhh, just kidding! It's only a coating of cottonwood seeds that are collecting all over the damned place. But it sure looks like snow, and actually did "accumulate" more than what I saw this year! (ETA: I slant-sticked about 3/4 inch total, and it's still falling!)

Wait, is that some vintage photo of @H2O Waterboy mowing his lawn back in the day??

Meh... Sun angle! Nothing but white rain! But seriously, pretty cool! I remember seeing it snow in CO years ago in July. But that was at the top of Mt. Evans at over 14,000 ft.

Early taste of Brood X for next spring? Must be an early straggler. I saw a few a year ago and was surprised.

LOL! Happy Birthday to you!! Now get the hell off my lawn! Hope you have a great day...

Ohhhh, Manhattans! I haven't had one in some time, myself, but like them a lot...Makers Mark for the bourbon for me (and sweet vermouth)! Also like a "perfect" Manhattan, which has both dry and sweet vermouth. There was a place in Atlanta when I lived there (the Highland Tap, for anyone familiar) that made awesome martinis and Manhattans. Friend of mine and I would go there quite often.

Yeah, the Dortmunder is one of their "lighter" beers, a golden ale. Personally I like that at this time of year, generally. But I also like the heavier fall/winter ones too, especially stouts. They have the "Edmund Fitzgerald" porter which is nice, and I've seen their "Blackout Stout" (commemorating the blackout in the northeast some years back) but never tried it yet. I also like their Holiday Ale, has some nice spice to it and is pretty heavy.

@nw baltimore wx, @Baltimorewx, and @C.A.P.E....not sure if this would live up to your beer standards, but I do enjoy Great Lakes beer from my hometown (Cleveland, OH)!! They make some good stuff, and I've been able to find it in a few places in DC! Or, I'll bring some back when I visit there! Here's some Dortmunder Gold...one of their flagship brews, and quite fine if I may say!!

@Mrs.J, I am so sorry to hear about this!! I know that at times, it seems bad things happen all at once like that. Take care of yourself, and I hope your family will be OK!! And thanks for the perspective, you're right, nature sometimes just has beauty when you need it. What a lovely photo!! If I may, here's a red rose for you...

I remember years ago seeing an episode of that show "Jackass", where this guy literally made and ate what he called a "vomlette". I'll leave it to one's imagination how it was created, but it was most definitely gag worthy!!

Did @H2O hack your account???

OK...now you all are just trolling poor @Mrs.J!!

"Mr. Frodo...throw it in! What are you waiting for??"

Well...this should also be a perfect day to crack open a cold one!! (I have some Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold awaiting me for later this afternoon!)

Not sure what to make of that...but it's better than Vienna sausages surrounded by Spaghetti-os!! By a fair amount.

Looks like a very long game of "Go", to me!!

Gorgeous out today! Took a nice walk in the Audubon nature center near where I'm at. Much nicer than the cold wind yesterday. Family up in Cleveland got snow on Friday! May freakin' eighth! Unreal. Enough to coat the grass a decent amount from what they said.