ok old man winter..you can take a hike now.

It's bad enough here in the UK. One day last week it looked like spring was finally on its way (nice and warm, not hot but there again it never is lol) but it's gone downhill again since. We may get snow sometime over weekend and beyond. To be honest, I'm sick of it, the cold and dull weather. I want it warm with some nice sunshine, it's not too much to ask for. I have relatives (not well-known, I discovered them whilst researching my family history) in Worcester, Massachusetts and they've had quite a lot of snow lately. I even saw it on TV (as we watch US news sometimes) and realised that we're all a bunch of wusses here in the UK lol.

We've had the opposite down here. It's been an incredibly hot summer and where I live there has been very little rain, certainly not the rain we usually have. It's been distressing and depressing in regard to the garden with plants dying left and right and the grassed area with patchy bits of dying grass and the rest just dust. Not only has it been hot and dry but it has also been very windy. I'm just wondering what we have in store for us this coming winter.

Lucky for us, we live somewhere that has not been really hit with the colder weather that some areas have been hit with. We even got near 60 just this last Saturday here which was nice. I am sure you are far from the only one who is really wishing spring would come so you can enjoy the sun and more warmth.

At the risk of you throwing wet noodles at me (and I'll take that with Alfredo Sauce please)....I really don't mind the cold weather, but no not too thrilled with a lot of snow. We really didn't have all that much snow this year here in the Big Apple...not like I know folks in your area did or my friends in CT. And spring? What's that? I can't really remember a real spring in ages. Seems like it can go from say 40 or 50 degrees one day, then boom..shoots up to over 80. I don't do hot weather well at all, and I seem to tolerate it less and less as I get older.

It IS garden season (evil grin)

myself i love it as long as i have heat inside and can just look at the lovely snow out but keep warm. but when it comes to no power and freezing like that i can sure see your point. id want it to go away also. i do love the nice not so hot summers in the north here its wayyyyyy to hot in summer

Yeah.. we got another dusting of snow last night.. nothing major, but I sure am getting tired of the snow now.

I'm with you! I can't wait for garden season!!! I live in Northwestern Virginia. We got 15 inches of snow in that storm but it began melting almost immediately. I really wanted to go out in the snow and give that Pennsylvania groundhog a message written in it: "That PA Rodent LIED!" Early Spring, my foot! Hmmph!!! But, the very next day (yesterday), we had MAYBE four inches left. It is warming up, going into the mid and upper 50s this weekend. Hopefully, all this snow will be gone by then. My daffodils and hyacinths are already poking their heads out of the soil. A lot of them already have buds. My lilac bushes have buds! I was very worried about the snowstorm killing the buds so the bushes don't blossom this year but I think they're okay. Even though we got a lot of snow, it stayed above freezing all day during the storm and each day since then. I think this storm is just winter's way of playing a joke on us. It can definitely go take a hike! I have 75 new strawberry plants coming soon and I don't want to have to move the snow aside to plant them. But, I really do think that Spring is finally on the way. You'll see it soon. Happy gardening!!!

We already have garden season here. I don't know what to do first. I have to cut the hedge, I must spray the trees with some chemicals against some harmful insects. Yet I don't complain. I like the winter but I like it more when it ends.

Count me in! I live in the midwest and just when I thought we're in for some warmer weather, I just heard last night that there will be another snow storm coming. Sheesh.

I understand what you are going through there. I once lived in great falls, montana in the usa. So much cold and snow there as well. Stay warm....

I like summer more than winter.