TheBanyanTree: It Must Be Mother's Day Because it's Snowing

[Roger Pye]

The first snow fell on the Snowy Mountains of NSW a week ago. We all 
felt its effect as the temperature plummeted (but not below zero, of 
course). In the 'old' days before graziers transported their flocks by 
truck there was a mountain legend that pre-winter snow would fall about 
six weeks before winter set in proper. It was seen as a warning to 
graziers who had summered their flocks and herds in the mountains to 
begin walking them home again ('droving' down the long paddock). Today 
the mountains are national park and so the sheep and cows do not graze 
there any more but the legend - and the early snowfall - remain.

Roger

LaLinda wrote:
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> It must be Mother's Day
> because it's snowing
> just like I warned all of those
> giddy sillies afflicted with
> spring fever
> who
> when
> the temperature rises
> above 60
> or
> in this case
> 80
> think it safe
> to proclaim it summer
> as if winter weren't listening
> the entire time
> waiting for just the right moment
> to humiliate them publicly
> underscoring their verbal recklessness
> just like those other Mother's Days with snow or
> horizontal  rain
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> so
> in the middle of winter when
> people checking my groceries grumble
> and gripe about how cold it is and how deep
> the snow and slush is, as if they've forgotten what the climate
> of our geographical location actually is known to be by meteorologists 
> far and wide
> not to mention those drivers of the world's biggest snowplow at the airport
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> I feel a deep pleasure as warm as bath water creep over me as I remind 
> them where they live
> how it can snow on Mother's Day and if they want warm they need to move 
> south
> or wear a parka
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> LLD 5/9/10
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