The Snows of May
On schedule this spring, the May air was filled with swirling white stuff. Fluffy, cottony, windblown piles of white drifted like snow and gathered everywhere.
Cottonwood seeds. Ugh. The breezy day that they first appeared all over the skies was the day we had our windows replaced. As the old leaky windows were removed the spaces were wide open, no screen, no frame, until the installers got ready to put new ones in. We're doing the whole house.
There was nothing to stop the fluff of May from blowing into the house all day long. And blow it did.
I even watched fluff balls drift in the west kitchen window, turn the corner and float straight out the south kitchen window. Half of them settled on the counters and in the toaster's slots and gas stovetop grills, but half of them just blew in one window and out the other to swirl around in the back yard and blow back in again.
There are cotton seeds inside the refrigerator. Cotton is in every nook of the house and crannies are crammed with it.
But what can you do? Our windows need replacing, and when the new ones are fully installed and it rains again and nothing leaks I am going to be very happy.
Right now I'm spitting out cotton stuck on my lips and watching snowy fluff accumulate on the furniture. I'm sure I'll still be finding it inside my slippers and stuck to the ice cubes in my gin and tonic weeks from now.
But new windows!
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The day after the installers left it snowed all morning. Real snow, not cottonwood seeds. It rained steadily and it snowed pretty hard, although there was only a little accumulation on the ground. The new windows did not leak.
Cottonwood seeds. Ugh. The breezy day that they first appeared all over the skies was the day we had our windows replaced. As the old leaky windows were removed the spaces were wide open, no screen, no frame, until the installers got ready to put new ones in. We're doing the whole house.
There was nothing to stop the fluff of May from blowing into the house all day long. And blow it did.
I even watched fluff balls drift in the west kitchen window, turn the corner and float straight out the south kitchen window. Half of them settled on the counters and in the toaster's slots and gas stovetop grills, but half of them just blew in one window and out the other to swirl around in the back yard and blow back in again.
There are cotton seeds inside the refrigerator. Cotton is in every nook of the house and crannies are crammed with it.
But what can you do? Our windows need replacing, and when the new ones are fully installed and it rains again and nothing leaks I am going to be very happy.
Right now I'm spitting out cotton stuck on my lips and watching snowy fluff accumulate on the furniture. I'm sure I'll still be finding it inside my slippers and stuck to the ice cubes in my gin and tonic weeks from now.
But new windows!
❆ 🌨 ❆ 🌨 ❆ 🌨 ❆ 🌨 ❆ 🌨 ❆ 🌨 ❆ 🌨 ❆ 🌨
The day after the installers left it snowed all morning. Real snow, not cottonwood seeds. It rained steadily and it snowed pretty hard, although there was only a little accumulation on the ground. The new windows did not leak.
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