Is this weather crazy or what?

I’ve heard a lot of conjecture on what could be causing it – fromglobal warming to el nino or possibly the fact that the New OrleansSaints won the Super Bowl.

I really don’t know if I believe all of that, but I do believewe’ve been having some different kind of weather. Someone said we’dhad four separate episodes of snow since January. All I can say tothat is – wow.

My plants can’t decide if they want to stay in hibernation or comeout and bloom. I just hope all of this really cold weather we’vehad recently didn’t kill my Florida plant. It’s actually aphilodendron that my grandparents got somewhere around 40 or 50years ago. They nicknamed it the Florida plant, which hasstuck.

They brought it from the coast when they moved back to Brookhavenin the early 1960s and a couple of years ago, it moved to my houseand was split into two plants. Anyway, I’m anxious for spring tocome so I can see if it’s going to make a comeback.

It would be like me to kill a plant that has survived for 40-plusyears in the cold. I have my fingers crossed for good news.

I’ve also watched with interest the number of robins that have beenvisiting my backyard looking for sprouts of green. I counted atleast 20 or more of them just last week. There were also a fewcardinals mixed in the group. They too are looking for spring andwondering what in the world has happened to the warm weather thatMississippians normally enjoy.

I can’t help but think the cold weather this far south has reallyset some animal’s instincts on the blink. They don’t know if theyshould fly farther south or hang out in the Magnolia state for awhile longer.

The groundhog didn’t lie when he saw his shadow earlier this month.Six more weeks of winter weather seems to be upon us.

I overheard someone say the Farmer’s Almanac predicted all of thisextremely cold weather this year.

I don’t read the almanac and I don’t know many people who do, butsomeone should have told the rest of us.

Strange weather phenomena have been happening since who knows when.I think with today’s technology it seems everyone knows more aboutweather and where it’s happening. We also have better access to theinformation and that of years past.

Even though we had a small dusting of snow late Tuesday night andinto early Wednesday morning, I still saw daffodils in differentareas of town trying to raise their yellow blooms. Apparently, alittle thing like snow isn’t going to stop them from coming tolife.

My husband has been on ready-set-go for the past few weeks. He’swaiting for it to get just warm enough so he can go out and fire upthe garden tiller and get to work plowing up his garden space.Every few days I get the question “you think it’s warm enough yet?”- to which I answer, “not yet.”

I hear there may be more snow in store for us this coming week.That’s got to be a record in someone’s weather book.

And how was your week?

Lifestyles Editor Tammie Brewer can be reached at The DAILY LEADERat (601) 833-6961 ext. 134, by e-mail at tbrewer@dailyleader.com oryou can write to her at P.O. Box 551, Brookhaven MS 39602.