What is it with April 6th and wet snow in Toronto?

I am back. Wow, first post for April. What can I say? History seems to repeat.

We have received a beautiful April wet snow/rain storm. It really is not unusual. Apparently, the record for snowfall on this date (April 6 for those playing at home) was 10.5 cm. That was set in 1994. I remember where I was living but do not remember that snowfall on that day. I do recall that being a VERY cold winter (it got that way just after my grandmother died just after Christmas of 1993).

That was 15 years ago. I do recall 25 years ago, 1984, it was the same thing. It was my last day of classes in my first year of university. I actually showed up to class, I think that we had to write a psychology exam. I recall the wet snow as I headed downtown. I figured that with the start of study week and the fact that I was meeting some friends to begin to study that evening, that a "day off" would not hurt. I did buy some jeans and a New Order LP.

Funny, how things like that work. Then again, it is early April and this is the unsettled nature of the early part of this month. I do recall that back in 1975, in April, we had a heavy snowfall. They had set up a small midway at our local strip mall (they seemed to do that with some regularity back in the day). It started snowing while I was on the Zipper. Come the next morning, I think it was a Thursday because I recall watching Carol Burnett, then again, I could be mixing up my memories, I thought we would have had a Friday snow day. That would have been cool. Then again, the 5 minute walk to school, through the snow, was not a hardship.

The weekend was pretty......uneventful. We were to have dinner here on Friday but I arrived home after five to a power failure. We took all our food to the Wife's cousin's place. It was all good.

I hope you have not missed me in my week long absence. I will try to be more regular with my posts. Keep coming back! Ciao!