Scarlet Pimpernel

Oh, absolutely!! Love the smell of bread coming out of the oven. That's the perfect thing to do for a cold, rainy day for sure!!

Definitely agree with this. I ran track a looooong time ago in high school and we always had a warmup/cool down during practices. I did sprints, 100m, 200m 400m relay. I still ended up suffering a pulled hip-pointer muscle one time (it went out on me while running the 100m dash during a meet!) that killed the rest of that season for me. Really sucked, especially since I was scheduled for 2 other events that day and I had to be scratched from those. It was all I could do to hobble/walk for awhile, even had to use crutches to some extent. Strangely, it didn't bother me again in my final 2 years after that, thank goodness. But shin splints...that was a never-ending battle! They had a shin splint board in the locker room that you were meant to stand on for some length of time (the board was elevated at about a 45 degree angle), to strengthen it. And at home I'd have to occasionally lift a weight tied to my foot with my ankle (used one of those old cast irons, weight like 8 pounds!). That helped a lot.

Oh, sorry to hear that! Hope you'll be OK...that really sucks. I've occasionally had to deal with lower back pain, so know how much a pulled muscle can just be debilitating until it loosens back up.

Oh my, those both look so damned good! Thanks for sharing that. There's almost nothing like warm, fresh bread.

Well, I was trying in vain to make it sound "healthy!" But a milkshake with alcohol works too!!! LOL!!

It's just another type of energy drink, really...that happens to have an alcohol content!!

So true. A sh*tty winter in many ways, and a very tense year in general certainly didn't help things I'm sure!

I mean, right?? Dogs and cats, living together...mass hysteria!!

That jello spaghettio thing definitely needs to be banned!! And that other drink with the beans and broth...ugh! As for the meme, I just looked up various Star Wars meme generators!

Hell, I think even @nw baltimore wx and @Scraff would have a hard time finding a beer that would compliment that "dish"!!

Oh no...you did NOT just go there! I blame @H2O for starting that last year!! Paging @Mrs.J, you are badly needed!

Weren't those the two major political parties of the day?

The more things change...

We didn't use models at that time. We only looked at the baro in what was then the equivalent of southeast Canada to determine the forecasts. Wait...I don't think barometers existed yet. Damn, there goes that theory!

I don't know about that, but I'd be willing to bet Ji canceled winter by that point! Was it possible to get NAM'd back then?

Is that a CWG forecast? All you need is the boom/bust potential and you're good to go!

So I guess the indications are that sometime from mid-May into June we can expect a HECS??? (Historical East-coast Cicada Swarm, that is! Or will it be more like a BECS??)

Haha! Yeah I think I missed that photo...definitely a "crazy" look there! Actually it's kind of scary. Your cat looks almost exactly like my brother and sister-in-law's cat (Zippy) from years ago! Zippy was almost overly friendly, she was all over you for attention. We used to joke when I'd visit that it would be like a spa weekend for Zippy, with an extra set of hands to pet her! LOL!

It took a...MIRACLE (for him to survive)!!

Definitely up for some good food posts! We need @WxWatcher007's bat signal. And crazy ass cats...though to the cats, we're probably the ones who are crazy!

Politics, politics, politics, politics...Mel Brooks style!

That look could be interesting. If that inter-mountain ridge were less broad and/or a little farther west to allow the downstream trough to dig more, perhaps that could lead to something? I honestly haven't looked at the ensembles (EPS or GEFS), so not sure what those indicate for that first weekend of March.

I'd love one more good shot at a nice event for March, myself! But I cannot blame some of the calls for "just end it and bring on spring!" either. Let's face it, many were disappointed (myself included) by some real underperformers, and I think last week really put the nail into that. Also, honestly, there really doesn't seem to be much of a threat on the horizon. If there were, that might be different. But I just don't see much chance out there in the overall pattern. Won't stop me from keeping an eye out, but it's not like some Marches before where we knew we'd have opportunities.

I agree..there have been some really good March storms in the past 10 years that I've experienced while here. I wasn't in this area in 1993, but was in northeast Ohio on the "western edge" of the Storm of the Century. We got nearly a foot of powder and it was in the teens with blizzard warnings for that one in eastern Ohio. Anyhow, beyond that, 2014 stands as the best year for March events with 2015 a close 2nd. The biggest of all of those was 8" on St. Patrick's Day 2014...which complimented a 5.3" event earlier that month and another 3" on March 25 (2nd year in a row we got decent snow here on my birthday!). And we even got about an inch or so on the 30th that year to close things out. I liked the March 2015 event, 6.5" with temperatures falling through the mid 20s all day. And it stuck around for a couple of days or so. Then of course we had the sleet event in 2017 and the "equinox storm" in 2018 that dropped 5" where I am. I don't know whether we can pull off a good event this year but I haven't paid much attention to the longer range to be honest. I'd love a shot at one final good event, as this year has been disappointing in and near the DC area at least; too many underperformers. I might not care so much about anything in March, except the event last week was really a bust here; even the models (NAM, in particular) that showed warm air entering the mid-levels were at least giving a couple or few inches of snow before a flip to sleet. I didn't see so much as a single snow flake. It was sleet right from the start and not even anything much to write home about at that (1" sleet total), and the event was over by noon. I know many here don't care for March snows because they don't stick around for long. But personally that doesn't bother me. If we could score a 6" or so event where we have one nice, snowy day and it hangs around for a day or so before warming up again, that would be awesome.

Unfortunately, seems all we get is a triple facepalm!!