87° in Greenfield so won’t have an official heat wave this week but close enough for my personal comfort level.
Heading out soon to jump in the river for the first time this year.
I drove through the East Quabbin hill towns yesterday. Wilderness with scattered houses. It’s so rural.
Good sandwiches at Petersham Country Store though.
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/
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.