More on the weather!

I sometimes feel like all that I write about is the weather or food! But lots of people ask about the weather here so I think this is the best place to write about it rather than lots of individual e-mails. It has been raining here the last few days. So practically all our lovely snow has gone. Vanished into yukky muddy puddles (some of them icy). Our back garden looks quite nasty and one would need some good gumboots to get around it if one needed to. I had hoped that the apres-snow mudiness would happen whilst I was in NZ, but alas, I guess not. But I just saw the weather report this evening and apparently there will be between 3 and 5 inches of snow overnight! So depending on how cold the temperatures are over the next week or two, I may well be spared the mud as we'll soon be in the homeland for a while, enjoying the Summer sun!