We’ve got a blizzard headed our way tomorrow. Does anyone besides me remember reading about how Pa Ingalls got stuck in a blizzard on his way back from Mankato? He had to dig himself a little cave in the snow for protection and ended up eating all the candy he’d bought to bring home to the kids. I think of that sometimes when I’m sitting in my nice home drinking hot chocolate while the storm rages outside.
It’s a balmy 52 degrees today, and with a blizzard coming tomorrow, I’m inclined to agree with a friend of mine who said, “March is full of weather whiplash.” Indeed! When I got on the weather app for more information, I also found this important news:
So at least there’s that. I sort of feel like no matter how nice it is in March in Minnesota, the mosquito risk ought to be placed at ZERO. But there might be an exceptionally hardy breed of mosquitos out there that burst out of the starting gate when it gets up to 50 degrees. The chance of those mosquitos living through a blizzard though is ZERO. Equilibrium restored.
Quotes from the Commonplace Book
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you
if you realized how seldom they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.
Femininity is the warm response to sacrificial responsibility.
Douglas Wilson
Duties are ours.
Events are the Lord’s.
Samuel Rutherford
Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to the be the will of God.
Jim Elliot
This is what the incarnation is all about – the author of the story becoming not just a character, but a human character. In this narrative, God is the storyteller and the main character. He is the bard and the hero. He authors the fairy tale and then comes to kill the dragon and get the girl.
Joe Rigney in the book Things of Earth
The risk of deleting this is low, but never zero.
Lynniebeemuseoday 
Mosquitoes and pollen: I am often taken aback when I read of a high pollen count in the middle of Winter, but then I don’t think pollen affects me. If I had bad allergies, then perhaps a high pollen count in the middle of Winter would be a threat. One of the great benefits of Winter is no mosquitoes! Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of the Box Elder bugs. They have been crawling our walls and today as I was making the bed, I found one in the sheets! For some reason, these bugs don’t bother me as much as some (such as the above-mentioned mosquitoes!), but so many have taken up residence that I am now declaring “no room at the inn”! I occasionally give some to our cat who thinks I am giving him a treat, but now I have to focus on the vacuum cleaner to do the real job!
Thank you for your inspiring quotations! Now to cap them off with a not so inspiring quote from my husband: “Wherever you go, there you are!”
Do you notice when the pollen count is high?
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Oh, and be careful when the wind blows tomorrow! It may exacerbate the weather whiplash!
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Bitter wind today – I felt the whiplash.
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I don’t think I’m sensitive to pollen either. We’ve been seeing the pesky box elder bugs in our house as well. I don’t know if our cat has been eating them – we can only hope. And we see Asian beetles in our house all year long!
Can’t argue with that quote of your husband’s! 😆
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When the wind is from the south, or when an air mass has moved over us from the south, we often are treated to an influx of pollen, which I do notice, having been afflicted with hay fever since childhood.
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I guess those pollen reports are pretty relevant then. I didn’t realize that you had hay fever! (Or did I know it and forgot?)
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Probably because I take an allergy drug so my symptoms are not always on display … achoo!
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