Short summer.

A week ago we were warming into the 60s during the day and only cooling to the 40s at night. Since last weekend we are only warming to the low 50s during the day and to just above freezing at night. The lakes are still frozen around here, although they are just covered with slush ice which is to thick to run a boat through but to thin to walk on. The first crop of mosquitoes had just started to hatch. They are the ones that hatch from the puddles caused by snow melting and are easy to swat because they come out when it's so cool out that they have to wear parkas. Anyhow, they even retreated to their little igloos to wait for the real summer. I turned the furnace off the last week of April trying to save some of that liquid gold the furnace burns for next fall when it really starts to get cold. Let me tell you it has been really hard not to turn it back on especially in the evening when we are just sitting watching TV. We have plenty of sweaters though so we've been able to avoid that, so far. It is supposed to warm into the 60s again this weekend. I sure hope so because we still have snow piles in the yard.
Speaking of TV watching. It is really getting sad what is being broadcast now. There are a few shows we both enjoy watching, CSI and Law and Order are 2 that come to mind, but mostly it's just junk. I don't like any of those "reality" shows. We only get NBC, ABC and PBS reliably up here. Some days FOX and a couple independent stations are available and during the winter CBS is clear. We used to watch a lot of PBS but for the last couple years they only broadcast a national feed from Washington since they say they don't have money for any local programming. So we have turned to Netflix for our evening entertainment. One of our favorite selections from Netflix is the BBC series "All Creatures Great and Small" a series about a veterinary practice in England in the late 30s to early 40s. Mary got me the first season DVDs last year for my birthday and I got hooked. Since then we've watched 4 more seasons plus two specials. I probably should have been a veterinary but it requires a lot of schooling and me and schools never hit it off very well because I never learned how to study. Maybe in my next life. Mary has bought me a few other British comedy series that we watch over and over. Like "Good Neighbors" and "Keeping up Appearances". I also have the first 4 years of "M.A.S.H" on DVD and I'll pop one of them in when I'm alone.
We get movies from Netflix also, and have seen some really good movies that didn't make it very well in the US, like "Evening". We have also sat through quite a few dogs. So far there have been only 2 that we could not watch. One was "Clock Work Orange" and I forget the name of the other one but it was supposed to be pretty good and we just could not sit through the whole thing. Now that the weather is getting nicer and the sun is staying up later we will spend less time in the house watching TV and movies and more time outside.
Time to go outside and do something, so more later.....maybe