March went out like a lion cub here. Yes, we had big, fat, fluffy snow, the favorite of all in this household! Soft, melts pretty much on contact, doesn’t have to be shoveled. What’s not to like?
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The kitty boys are fascinated by snow. They never tire of seeing it, and have loved snow from the first time they experienced it as kittens. The last snow of March was no exception!
Andy led the charge to the door to see the snow, but Dougy came by shortly and took a better look out the door.
Dougy took a easy seat on the box. Andy wandered off to his own better seat, then Dougy left briefly when the snow let up.
Andy climbed on the dining room table to get a better look, but the snow let up before he tried to hop over onto the window sill. Show’s over!
Or is it?! Dougy takes another look.
Good to see the boys enjoy watching the snow fall. Kitties love that!
It is in the mid 50s here and sunny today in Oregon. I heard some parts of Connecticut got snow on April 1st.
Lots of action!
omg please, no more snow here … we’ve been raining almost every day!
We’ve had a bit of both on the same day.
I think everyone needs blue skies and sunshine right now!
That’s a fact!
Snow. NO!
It didn’t stick. That’s the best part of it!
For sure!
No! Not more snow! What a cruel joke by Mother Nature.
I melted right away, which is exactly how it should be. There could still be more snow this season. There often is.
Snow, our weathers are the same, this morning we had snow, but in the afternoon it was raining. And we had a finch in our yard, it means two weeks to the summer…but we have had sometimes snow in May.
Same here. That’s interesting to realize we at 42.2 degrees N latitude are experiencing the same weather as a country at 64 degrees N latitude! We also have snow in May sometimes! (I once experienced snow here on July 4th, though it melted before it landed on the ground.)
Sama täällä. Mielenkiintoista huomata me 42,2 astetta N leveysasteen havainneet saman sää maana 64 asteessa N leveysasteen! Meillä on myös lunta saattaa joskus! (Olen kerran kokenut lunta 4. heinäkuuta, mutta se suli ennen se laskeutui maahan.)
Thank you for writing in finnish. We should have colder, but the Golf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean makes our climate milder.
I’m trying to remember to add Google Translate versions of what I write when the person commenting lives in a different country with a different language. I know that the Google translations are oftentimes poor and oftentimes unintentionally funny, but they are better than nothing!
Yritän muistaa lisätä Google Translate versioita mitä kirjoitan, kun henkilö kommentoi asuu eri maassa erikielisiä. Tiedän, että Google käännökset ovat usein köyhiä ja Usein tahattomasti hauskoja, mutta ne ovat parempia kuin ei mitään!
That is very kind of you, and true, the translations are sometimes very funny.
I know Chinese and Turkish translate in weird ways, and so does Finnish it seems!
Tiedän Kiinan ja Turkin kääntää outo
tavalla, ja niin tekee Suomi näyttää!
Here’s what that translation of English into Finnish looks like when the translated Finnish is translated back into English! LO!
I know China and Turkey turn a strange way, and so does Finland look like!
My cats with the cato are wellfamiliar with snow. It is good to eat but cold on the feet!
Andy likes to eat it, and Dougy wants to explore in it. He is a bit reluctant to get in it, though, if the snow is deep.
They need a little step stool by the door 🙂
If I open the back door instead (which I mostly do), they have a small chair and a flower pot they can stand on or share. I have enough clutter by the front door!
Here’s a video that shows what they have for the back door kitty viewing purposes.
Wow! Dougy and brother Andy look HUGE! What are you feeding those boys?!?!?
Kitty food….! LOL! They are medium size cats, roughly 11 pounds each (4,8-4,9 kilos) or so. I don’t recall exactly how much they weighed last time they had a their veterinarian appointment . Andy s a bit lighter than Dougy, who has a stockier build.
It’s probably all that fur that makes them have such a large appearance. Regarding fur, my husband calls cat sleep time their “keratin regeneration.”
That’s exactly true. If you pet them, you’ll realize they are slender kitties under all that fluff!
Your husband is a funny guy!
Don’t you wonder what they are thinking!?
“Hmm. He’s made out of meat..!” LOL! I truly do.
How strange, Doug, the fascination for that snow for the kitties . They tried various soulutions to better see it and in a comfortable way
In friendship
Michel
They are like kittens when they see snow falling, Michel. The try to catch the flakes through the door!
They are so absorbed in this snow ! How funny !
They try to catch the snowflakes through the door!
How priceless !
It’s one of my favorite videos of the kitty boys….
I wonder what makes them so curious? There are new fragrances?
That is part of it, I think, because they usually start “exploring” the snow they can see out the window in the door by sniffing at the bottom of the door, where some fresh air comes in. Cats, of course, love to sniff everything. When I return home, the first thing they do is sniff me, my shoes, and my cane. “Ah ha!” they tell each other, “So he was at the grocery store again!” or whatever.
And here it feels like summer… wouldn’t mind some snow like that.
We will go back and forth between springlike weather, with rain and warmish weather, to an occasional light rain turning to snow. May 15th is the average date fort the last frost, and the conventional wisdom is you plant your tomatoes on Memorial Day (traditional one, at 31st, not the current one!).
Wow, that’s something else. I guess you just enjoy the sun when it comes out. People in the Netherlands never understand why we are not outside when the sun shines. It would mean that we would be totally fried in the summer. Not a good thing either.
Yes, the sun is appreciated! I try not to spend too much time in it, especially during the middle of the day because I am prone to sunburn, but the often brutal winters here in the mid continent make warm weather a welcome change and relief!
(Do you have a Dutch connection I’ve missed? Though the specifics haven’t been settled yet, my Dutch friend Marianne plans on visiting here and our mutual friend Deborah in Maine this September.)
I’m Dutch myself even though I have lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years at this point. Hence the Dutch poems once in awhile.
Cool! My friend is an Amsterdammer, though I believe she was born in Den Haag.
I was born in the east. That’s where I stayed most of my time. Een heel fijn weekend gewenst!
Wishing you a fine weekend, too! (I got through all words but “heel”, which I didn’t recognize a “very”.
I’m impressed! Groetjes.
I doubt if I can discern the meaning of more than 10% of Dutch. If a word is similar in meaning to a German or English word, that helps. Context helps. Same with French, which I often can stumble through large blocks of text because of the large borrowings in English from that language and Latin. By the same token, I am a terrible language student!
Well, Google translate can always help too 🙂
I know when I use it on Turkish the results are clearly hit and miss, but the translation is adequate to get the general meaning. I hope and presume people using the translate feature at the top right on my blog now get a general idea of what I wrote, too though I use idiomatic English lots of times.
I have used it once in awhile over the last five years including the translation of English to Dutch and I have to say it has improved significantly. You can even help it improve which I have done too.
The least used languages I translation are the ones that are the poorest ones in translation. As you note, you can make suggestions for a better translation, and little by little, Google Translate works better for those languages that people have made the most suggestions for better translations.