Tomorrow is Evacuation Day!!!

Aren’t you all excited about Evacuation Day in Boston tomorrow?  Well, it really isn’t tomorrow, it’s really Tuesday but Monday’s are a much easier day to holiday and run a marathon. No! Wait, that’s Patriot’s Day.  No! Wait again.  That’s Marathon Monday. Jeeze Loo Ease!

Evacuation Day is really a disguised St. Patrick’s Day.  Though it is the day the British left Boston, rather causally in 1776 when they woke up finding a whole bunch of canons from New York pointing at them from Dorchester. It was not an official day off until 1938 when the then Celtically dominated General Court was looking for a way to get the day off. (Don’t get me started about June 17th.)

What this generally means for us common folk is I-495 will be a mess for the morning commute and I-95 for the afternoon.  Forget about I-90 from 495 to Boston for most of the day.  Come to think about it, that’s normal for a Monday any way. 

In the immortal words of the late Roseanne Roseannadanna, “never mind.”
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Sprung Spring???

We were driving back from the Berkshires the other day.  When we got off the highway, I lowered the window.  After about a ten minute drive through the Southeast Massachusetts open spaces, I remarked, "Is that Spring I smell?"

After a short discussion on how the word "smell" is not grammatically correct usage, we came to the agreement that indeed, the scent of Spring was tentatively making itself known.

With such a wimp of a Winter, there was the fear that Spring itself would be rather brown.  With very little, meaning no, snowmelt or flooding, a drought is feared.

The good news is the lakes and reservoirs appear to be cresting full, but for how long?  Stay tuned...

This too will pass.
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