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majroj
It's a deal, majroj.  I'm diverting some cold from up north - tiring work standing in the back garden with a fan in each hand wafting it all your way, so I'll need the Southern Comfort to keep going.

posted by johnmacnab on June 2, 2008 at 4:54 AM | link to this | reply

Maybe we colud arrange a meteorlogical exchange?

posted by majroj on June 1, 2008 at 6:28 AM | link to this | reply

majroj.
I find it hard to come to terms with a spring in January, majroj, but then in auld Scotia it was the rainy season all year.  Did I tell you about the visitor we had from the Highlands of Scotland - last year in his village, there were 296 days of rain during the year.  At least they make some delicious Malt Whisky with the stuff.

posted by johnmacnab on May 31, 2008 at 8:25 AM | link to this | reply

Caloifornia's Central Valley is experiencing its two weeks of spring

That is, "Second Spring", since everything gets green as soon as the first rain falls in January

 

posted by majroj on May 29, 2008 at 7:06 PM | link to this | reply

majroj
I'd prefer if you shipped southern Comfort, majroj.  It would help to fuel the Siberian Express.

posted by johnmacnab on May 29, 2008 at 4:14 PM | link to this | reply

You get our southern humidity, we get your Siberian Express
Watching midwestern weather is like watching mercury on glass.

posted by majroj on May 28, 2008 at 5:08 AM | link to this | reply

ginnieb
That's funny, ginnieb.  Up here we keep being told that the bad weather is sweeping up from the Midwest.  We have to blame somebody, but if I find out who caused these pesky flies or whatever they are, they will be getting more than blame.  What they'll be getting will be physical.

posted by johnmacnab on May 27, 2008 at 5:22 PM | link to this | reply

majroj
Good thinking majroj.   When you get to heaven central find the 'barn swallow' lineup - in fact perhaps the bugs are there already.

posted by johnmacnab on May 27, 2008 at 5:17 PM | link to this | reply

Oh ugh! And yet you make them sound almost poetic Mac!
What a great read...and far away from 'your' flies!  It's so windy here in the Midwest that if there were such flies they'd be all blown away. Oh maybe that's it!  The strong winds are blowing all our insects up your way!  That would be a change for the weather people here who are always blaming any cold weather on Canada!  "Yep, we're gittin a cold front from Canada again!"  Makes me laugh...as did your blog!  

posted by ginnieb on May 27, 2008 at 8:08 AM | link to this | reply

If we do "come back", I want to be a barn swallow.
And if food's the measure, I'm coming back in your neck of the woods.

posted by majroj on May 26, 2008 at 5:55 PM | link to this | reply

TAPS
Apparently TAPS, but the event didn't trigger my memory at all.  People are saying it is the worst ever - but then they would, wouldn't they?

posted by johnmacnab on May 26, 2008 at 1:06 PM | link to this | reply

That sounds horrible, johnmacnab.  Is this something that happens there every year at this time?   I would go nuts trying to keep them away and off of me.

posted by TAPS. on May 26, 2008 at 11:16 AM | link to this | reply

BC-A
We have one hummingbird so far this year, BC.  But all the other birds are eating them anyway - but I don't think they can keep up.

posted by johnmacnab on May 25, 2008 at 6:18 AM | link to this | reply

sam444
That's interesting, sam.  I'm all for the 'fest' after this lot have gone, if they do go.

posted by johnmacnab on May 25, 2008 at 6:16 AM | link to this | reply

CD
I wish, CD, I wish.

posted by johnmacnab on May 25, 2008 at 6:13 AM | link to this | reply

Pat
Oddly enough I did see a small green winged beastie yesterday Pat, but the pests aren't Mayflies.  Nobody has a an answer when I ask what they are - no answer that is printable, that is.  The lightning bugs are mesmerizing, aren't they.

posted by johnmacnab on May 25, 2008 at 6:13 AM | link to this | reply

Like Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ...
 Do you have any hummingbirds  They eat flies!

posted by BC-A on May 23, 2008 at 8:15 PM | link to this | reply

This was so exciting to read. Where I come from we call it chrome plating. When i lived in Michigan we had an annual 'Black Fly Fest,' it was held to hail the end of blackfly season. They are pesky critters. I love the close pina colada and crossed legs was vivid imagery!  Well written.  sam

posted by sam444 on May 23, 2008 at 5:03 PM | link to this | reply

Are these the dreaded......
"Lovebugs"??????

posted by Corbin_Dallas on May 23, 2008 at 3:50 PM | link to this | reply

Ewww, yuck!
We have a similar invasion by something called Mayflies, little green-winged things that swarm like fog in August.  My favorite summer insects are lightning bugs. They're amazing. 

posted by Pat_B on May 23, 2008 at 3:07 PM | link to this | reply