Bitching about Boston

Boston takes notice of Alaska's rocket launch
February 21, 2012

The rocket arcing up into the northern lights above Alaska was on its way to measure
the effects of the celestial phenomenon’s effects on global positioning systems.

It was a mission launched Saturday by a NASA funded group of 60 researchers studying electrical activity
in the aurora borealis and the likelihood it’s interfering with GPS and other signals.

Cornell University says the 46-foot rocket lifted off from the University of Alaska’s Poker Flat Research Range
near Fairbanks and sent back data as it flew through the aurora at an altitude of 217 miles.

http://articles.boston.com/2012-02-21/news/31080310_1_northern-lights-rocket-gps
 
sheesh WBZ TV has proof that it was 60F or warmer. The Frog Pond is a thawed out puddle. Hoping that none of the smart arses
breaks a face or a leg while drunkenly wading around. There's pipes under that water, you dumbass.
 
Listen: Elvis Costello, Keith Richards, Paul Simon, Salman Rushdie pay tribute to Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen at JFK Library
Feb. 26, 2012

"At the end, it was Costello with Keith Richards clanging guitars together on stage at the John F. Kennedy Library,
playing a suitably sloppy and euphoric version of Chuck Berry's "Promised Land" as a shit-ton of famous talent --
almost as much in the audience as made it onstage -- gathered to see Berry and Leonard Cohen
receive the first annual PEN New England Awards for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence.

The event was way sold out? (That's funny, as I was told it was invitation, only.)
and was live-streamed by the JFK Library.
The full video should eventually show up here, and be downloadable from iTunes here.
In the meantime, here are the speeches:

http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/ph...k-berry-and-leonard-cohen-at-jfk-library.aspx

Paul Simon, introducing Berry, broke out in a belly laugh after Berry sidled up to him at the podium.
"He just told me he's got a bad ear and he can't hear a word I'm saying," Simon told the audience.
"That's probably for the best."
 
"There was no shortage of action in the opening frame, even if that period ended almost three minutes early because of a cracked pane of glass."

NEW YORK—Because of a broken pane of glass behind the New York net, the final 2:53 of the first period between the Rangers
and Boston Bruins was tacked on to the start of the second.

Boston's Brian Rolston fired a shot that sailed over the net and cracked the glass. Cracks were visible in the glass, but it didn't shatter
and no pieces of glass appeared to enter the seating area or playing surface. After a brief inspection of the pane by a member of the ice crew,
the teams were sent to the dressing rooms and an announcement was made that the final minutes of the period would be played after the intermission.

The pane was quickly replaced, and the ice was resurfaced. The teams were to switch ends after the remaining time of the first period was played.

boston.com

Where did the puck land?
 
Warm house, yesterday. Felt like Spring. Preview? Fairy snow, tonight?

Boston revels in record-high temps
March 09, 2012

The mercury at Logan International Airport climbed to 68 degrees just before 1 p.m. today,
beating the record for the day, according to the website of the Taunton office
of the National Weather Service.

Normal high temperatures for this week are about 43 degrees.

Friday night- Cooler with lows in the upper 20s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.

Gusts up to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of snow 30 percent

http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-09/metro/31135025_1_strong-winds-temperatures-cold-front

It was a bit windy.

High winds damage Mass. gas station
March 9, 2012

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—High winds have damaged a gas station in New Bedford.

Police say strong wind gusts are likely to blame for causing the roof over the gas pumps at a Sunoco station to topple over.

No one was injured in the canopy collapse Thursday afternoon.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...gas_station/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news

(Maybe the gusts were more than 50 mph.)
 
3/13/2012

Near Back Bay Hilton- 4 Alarm fire fire fire -transformers blew up

T near Arlington ect Forget it. Toxic black smoke cough cough really terrible odor
All the way down to Huntington!

"The fire did somehow extinguish, but there is still thick black smoke coming out.

We don't want people breathing this in," said Steve MacDonald, of the Boston Fire Department.

Power in the neighborhood has been shut off in the neighborhood, and streets in area of Boylston and Fenway have been shut down.

Service on the Green Line of the MBTA has also been affected, officials said, and the Massachusetts Bridge is closed on the Cambridge side.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/30671276/detail.html

Massachusetts State Police have asked motorists on the Massachusetts Turnpike to avoid the Prudential exit.

By 7 p.m., hotel guests were being evacuated, but there were no reports of any injuries.

Police officers first noticed the heavy smoke coming from the building and alerted Boston fire."
 
Thousands still without power; NStar says restoration efforts will continue into Thursday

03/14/2012

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Power to remain out for some overnight in Back Bay

State Police closed the eastbound Exit 22 ramp from the Massachusetts Turnpike to Copley Square this afternoon
to allow NStar the space to install a replacement generator near the site of Tuesday night’s fire.

MBTA reported this afternoon that NStar has managed to get enough electricity flowing to the Symphony Road and
Prudential Center stations to permit their reopening. T workers have tapped into an alternative power source in order
to provide lighting inside the Symphony station.

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrod...ins-unknown/L4iblsn1om2aa4HvtDHshO/index.html

39 year old substation transformer in Back Bay goes ka-blooey?
Why doesn't this happen in Times Square?

Power out all over Back Bay, Blackout on Boylston St and Mass Ave, the Theatre district. Even the Citgo sign was out?

You would never know that alternative generators existed- Pitch black streets of Boston.
 
3/15/12

The Citgo sign has it's lights on, this morning.

200 traffic lights out of commission during the blackout. 12 still out of commission this morning.

This is the first time I have seen The Pru with no lights at all, except for the weather light.
(It is red this morning.)
The ramps into Copley and out of Copley are closed. Exits to the Mass Pike are closed.
NStar began working to assemble a network of generators and “line jumpers’’
to connect residences and businesses to power. NStar said Wednesday that it expected to
restore power to all of its customers in the affected areas by early Thursday morning.
They changed it to say Thursday at around noon.

10,000$ per night loss for local watering and dining holes. No power. No serving. No cooking.
Those without power had no showers, no blow dry, make-up applied with help of candle light or flash light.
Some lights are starting to come on at the Prudential Center. 4,000 still do not have power.

"Exit No. 22, which includes the Prudential and Copley ramps, were closed to accommodate the generators.
The entire exit will be closed until Friday, and authorities ask that drivers seek alternate routes."
 
3/16/2012

Bay Bay and associated areas- Copley Square to Kenmore Square will be in the dark again.
The loud and smokey temporary generators will be turned off. The final push to hook up
the new permanent generator is happening tonight and tomorrow morning.

"NStar chief executive Tom May said at a news conference that the fire was caused by an unusual
"catastrophic" connector failure between a substation housing the transformer and the transmission system.

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and probably Saturday NStar allowed
a densely populated and busy part of Boston to go without power.

NStar has no plans to reimburse Hub businesses for losses incurred during this week's power outages.

Little Jack Horner (the investor and stockholder)
Sat in the corner, (his demands getting louder and bolder)
Watching the corporation pie;
give the customers not a crumb
if it will take a bite out of my plum
Jack said 'No one is more important than I!

Members of the 1% all have a thumb for big bonuses and fat profits, the 99% gets given the finger.

Toxic relationship between labor unions and management?

National Grid, NStar, Western Massachusetts Electric Co., and Unitil Corp.
These companies skimped on service and left families without power
for a month, during the deadliest and coldest winter storms.

The Oct. 29-30, 2011 snowstorm downed trees and power lines, knocking out electricity to around 700,000
Bay State utility customers including some 200,000 in these parts. Nationwide, the storm wreaked havoc
as it marched up the Eastern Seaboard, causing billions in damage and claiming five lives along the way.

December 12, 2008- 1 million remain without power after ice storm

Hardest hit was northern Worcester County, where 109,000 people are still without electricity.

It was bad, and now it will get worse. Pay more and get less for your money- a merger of corporations is ahead-

We all know what happens after a merger....
 
Election year promises to Massachusetts citizens from Gov. Deval Patrick

You will pay less for energy! (Patrick will be gone in 2014)

The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound ran radio ads, before the election- that advocated against the proposal
by Cape Wind Associates LLC to build 130 turbines in the Sound.

The ad asked listeners if they were tired of paying high electric bills and stated that if Gov. Deval Patrick had his way,
"172 communities across Massachusetts will soon be paying even more." The ad hammered Patrick for helping National Grid
sign "a back-room, no-bid deal" with Cape Wind and asked listeners to join the other gubernatorial candidates who
opposed the project.

March 13, 2012
Opposition to Cape Wind Associates LLC silenced
Radio was a way to reach everyone.
Cable TV does not let each local community have access

The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound also must not engage in any electioneering communications through 2014.

The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound must pay the state $22,500 to settle a complaint.

Cape Wind recently reached an agreement to sell more than a quarter of its power to NStar, which provides electricity
to customers on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. National Grid agreed in 2010 to buy half of the project's power.

2010, another key utility, National Grid, agreed to buy about 50 percent of the power output of Cape Wind.

Massachusetts incentives-

Corporate Deduction- Excise Tax Deduction for Solar- or Wind-Powered Systems

Corporate Exemption- Excise Tax Exemption for Solar- or Wind-Powered Systems

Alternative Energy and Energy Conservation Patent Exemption (Corporate)

State Grant Program

MassCEC - Commonwealth Wind Incentive Program - Commercial Wind Initiative Grant
MassCEC - Commonwealth Wind Incentive Program - Community-Scale Wind Initiative

National incentives

Wind Powering America is a nationwide initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Program
designed to educate, engage, and enable critical stakeholders to make informed decisions about
how wind energy contributes to the U.S. electricity supply.

DOE Announces $180 Million for Deployment of Offshore Wind Projects
Date: 3/1/2012

As part of a planned 6-year $180 million initiative, an initial $20 million will be available this year as the first step
in supporting up to four innovative offshore wind energy installations across the United States.

In addition to the new funding, the Department is continuing to work with partners across the federal government to implement
a comprehensive offshore wind energy strategy, conduct resource assessments, and streamline siting and permitting.

Streamline siting and permitting? Who is getting run over, while someone else is told to speed ahead?

This site is dangerous! Marine Navigation problem/ Aviation Concerns/
Search and Rescue at sea/ Public Access Fishing Restrictions

(Is this why NOAA was co-opted- to do a study to see how much it would cost to pay off fisherman not to fish in that area?)

Gov. Deval Patrick and MA politicos are wheeling and dealing on The Hill. Making promises about something that does not exist.

Reality throws cold water on hot deals concerning Cape Wind

Significant legal appeals. Still no buyer for remaining 22.5% of power. Necessary state review of new contracts.
Government financial support for Cape Wind in doubt. The DOE has put Cape Wind's bid for government loan backing
on hold, potentially removing a vital source of financing. US court ruling revoked FAA approval of Cape Wind and
found that the FAA failed to consider the very real dangers and risks to the operations and safety of the 400,000
flights that transit Nantucket Sound each year. Cape Wind is unable to find investors.

“Unfortunately for Massachusetts ratepayers, the DPU has become nothing more than a rubber stamp on Governor Patrick’s
misguided support of Cape Wind,” said Audra Parker, president and CEO of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.

Cape Wind power purchase, WMECO rate freeze seal deal for Massachusetts OK of NStar-Northeast Utilities mergerWednesday, February 15, 2012 10:45 PM
http://blog.masslive.com/breakingnews/ludlow/rss.xml

NStar to buy Cape Wind power
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120216/NEWS/202160311/-1/NEWS11


“This decision ignores a mountain of evidence that shows National Grid has failed to justify this $2 billion cost increase
for consumers and refused to consider other less expensive renewable alternatives.”
 
With all your bitching and moaning, I still miss living in Boston
 
Mitt Romney- King of the Massholes

“He was used to a different world, where he was the C.E.O. of a corporation, and he made decisions, and that is what happened.”

The King of the Massholes wants a Temple for worship

The Mormon religion over-rules state and town laws in Massachusetts

Sen. Orrin Hatch- “I immediately called Ted and asked for help. Not long after that conversation, he called me back and said, quote,
‘All of Western Massachusetts will see the angel Gabriel on the top of the Mormon Temple’,” Hatch claimed, laughing.
“I had to inform Teddy that it was actually the Angel Moroni, a prominent figure in the LDS faith.”

Following Hatch’s timeline, the temple was already constructed and parishioners wanted to see Moroni,
their “angel of light,” atop the building. This would probably place his call to Kennedy sometime after February 2000,
when the Middlesex Superior Court threw out the decision by the Belmont ZBA to allow the steeple.

The placement of the spire and the Boston Temple itself were long, drawn out legal battles lasting years, finding its way into district courts
and the Supreme Judicial Court, heading all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which chose not to hear the case.

“The neighbors went to the courts expecting a fair hearing and a decision based on the law and the Constitution.
It is distressing to learn that powerful senators moved behind the scenes to deny them due process.”
- John Forster

“I think the court has punched a huge hole in Massachusetts zoning law” adding, “this decision gives religious uses carte blanche,
to build as big as they want, and downplay greatly the significant, dimensional regulations in zoning law.”
- Art Kreiger

“It is not for judges to determine whether the inclusion of a particular architectural feature is ‘necessary’ for a particular religion.”
- Chief Justice Margaret Marshall

Thomas Gatzunis was the town engineer at the time of the temple construction and was involved in approving permits
and attending hearings for many years. He left the office in April 2004, when he was hired by the Romney Administration
to be commissioner of Mass. Dept. of Public Safety.

Legislators Recall Governor Who Didn’t Mingle

March 9, 2012

Even though he worked just a few hundred feet from them for four years, Mr. Romney displayed little interest in getting to know
lawmakers and never developed real relationships with most members of the Democratic-dominated body, according to interviews
with two dozen current and former lawmakers of both parties and members of the governor’s staff.

Mr. Romney personally helped recruit 131 Republican candidates to run against Democratic legislators in 2004, an unusual
frontal assault against incumbents. He threw himself into the project, calling the slate Team Reform, and overseeing a $3 million
fund-raising drive for the election.

The effort backfired. Republicans lost seats that year, and Mr. Romney earned the enmity of the Democrats he had sought to unseat,
especially those who had supported his initiatives.

Mr. Romney turned to Mr. Joyce and made an inside joke that the senator found bewildering.

“It became apparent,” Mr. Joyce said, “that he thought I was a freshman senator from his own party — somebody else entirely.”

2012

Senator Brian A. Joyce is serving his eighth term in the Senate, representing the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district,
which includes Avon, Braintree, Canton, East Bridgewater, Easton, Milton, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, and
West Bridgewater.
 
Nice. Romney's top yes man and goffer had fake police badges manufactured with a copy of the real Mass seal on it. Badge numbers and everything.

Gave the badges to people on Romney's staff. Used the badges to slide Romney through checkpoints, and avoided paying for stuff, like Bostonians did.

Used the badges to threaten people, and warn people off from intruding on Romney's "space.

You know. People like reporters, or citizens who had questions for the governor.
Must have been so much fun, to pretend to be a Boston Policeman.

I'd like to see Romney deny this one. It's OK to break the law, if you are on Romney's staff? Romney is no stranger to paying a heap of lawyers.
 
The winter that wasn't

March 23, 2012

It’s official. After weeks of growing evidence - of leaves sprouting in January, of pathetic and muddy snowhills,
of washed out backyard hockey rinks, - the last few days have left us with little doubt:

This will go down as the year we had no winter. It’s a meteorological phenomenon for sure, but also a psychological test
for many New Englanders, who pride themselves on surviving the bitter onslaught that is our calling card, our birthright.

It hit 80F on Thursday, just like it did many times this month.

Last winter we endured a Shaquille O' Neal sized winter. This winter we did not have enough snow to fill Shaq's winter boots.

This means no Vernal pools for the critters. The salamanders and frogs will not be happy campers. That means more bugs to swat.

Mount Wah Wah Wah Wachusett did not boast. It wept quietly while it posted Closed on the website. No skiing.

It did not get cold enough to kill off invasive species. The trees will suffer for this. We will be lucky if we do not get Aussie sized forest fires.

You know something is wrong, when five records are broken in one month.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...armth_rubs_some_new_englanders_the_wrong_way/

{gsgs comment- There are whole lakes missing from the South West, due to drought.}
{We have the equivalent of missing lakes, in Mass.We have had severe water restrictions before this.}

I am hoping the nutcases over the stone wall border will get a clue: Please do not use fireworks everyday to scare the turkeys and coyotes off.

If you start my patch on fire, it won't take long for the fire to reach your patch.
(Pardon me while I plan an escape route. I hope my insurance covers a drought fire.)

It does not help to know there is a reason for this-

No high pressure system developed over Canada. Labrador, Greenland.

Air from the Pacific, not Northern Canada ( No freight trains of cold air- Quebec, Montreal, )

No Alberta Clipper sent us frozen air to freeze faces, No Montreal Express sent us a wintery test, We did not get wrecked by ice from Quebec.
Siberia did not send us anything to makes us freeze. *sigh* Airflow was West to East

At least our economy is good. Everyone drove to work, and more time was spent shopping at the mall. Snow days were scarce. Phooey
 
From the vaults, comes a clue!

Mitt Romney’s $10 million federal bailout

The bailout saved Bain from having to declare bankruptcy – ironic, in light of Romney’s more recent insistence that the
federal government should not have helped prevent the big car companies from going into bankruptcy.

And speaking of irony, how’s about Romney calling Barack Obama a “crony capitalist”
(makes absolutely no sense in relation to NLRB appointments- on the same day that this story reenters the spotlight?)

Jan 5, 2012

1993, when Mitt was the chairman and chief executive of Bain & Co. (which is a separate though related operation from Bain Capital),
Mitt Romney engineered a federal bailout of Bain: by convincing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to forgive roughly $10 million
of the company’s debts, according to sources close to the deal and federal records obtained by The Boston Globe.

Romney has never revealed the financial details behind his work at privately held Bain & Co. Nevertheless, federal documents
and information from six sources with knowledge of the deal demonstrate that Bain & Co.’s problems contributed to the FDIC’s
losses from the 1991 failure of Bank of New England….

Bain & Co. loans from Bank of New England date to the mid-1980s, when the economy, the bank and the consulting firm were booming….

Originally, Bain & Co. revenues were to have been used to repay the bank loans. But by 1990, with the economy slipping,
it became clear Bain & Co. had overestimated its ability to repay its debts, which at that point had reached about $220 million.
There also was widespread belief in the financial community that the company’s founders had overestimated
the value of their firm….

With little hope for a turnaround, Bank of New England was seized by federal regulators in January 1991. Six months later,
Providence-based Fleet Financial Group Inc. took possession of all the loans from Bank of New England that it believed
would be repaid in full.

The roughly $10 million forgiveness by the FDIC occurred in 1993, when Romney was chairman and chief executive of Bain & Co.

(Bank hanged names 9 times, It changed from Bank of New England to Fleet bank, and changed again and again and again.)

(from the Peanut Gallery-)

Didn’t Mitt’s Olympics benefit from the infusion of extra 10s of millions of dollars for security in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks?

http://bluemassgroup.com/2012/01/mitt-romneys-10-million-federal-bailout/
 
Richie's Slush has been open since March 13, this year. 21 days early. March 8, 2012 68F Broke a record.
 
OK. I used my AC a few days ago. Now, this week , I have a few nights that will drop down into 20F or so. Some flying slush? gahhh
 
Newton's Atrium Mall

Like to "kick the tires,"? Like to enjoy the full shopping experience? Like to nibble between shopping? Hate El Cheapo, environmentally sick malls?

In 1989, The Atrium Mall was the suburb's answer to Newbury Street.
Luxury without vulgarity. Donald Trump's pouty lip would have sagged to the floor.
Donald would have complained about the lack of eye hurting decoration.
It was pretty, clean, and spacious. A pleasant alternative to Bloomie- World.

Location, location, location. Rt. 9? The traffic on that road is a nightmare, to begin with.
It was a great building. But the garage was a horror. The most expensive vehicles left the most paint.
New York chic, hot trends, and high end boutique, in one place. 66 Stores.

1999 Atrium changed to Yuppie Land. This was before online shopping was widely available.

2012 and there are only 10 stores left. Blame the fail on the crash of 2007- 2008?
Leasing at the troubled mall peaked in 2006 with a 95 percent occupancy rate.

March 23, 2012
Finance problems, and they still cant find a buyer.

I missed the Atrium Borders Books & Music store. It was the biggest and the best, at the time.
Borders at Downtown Crossing did not have the same calm, peaceful vibe.

Upscale? Sure, you could spend a zillion if you wanted to. The best of the best was there.
Not every luxury requires a loan from the bank. They were seeing so much merchandise march out the door,
they were in a generous mood. The stuff that you could pick up for a song, would have made your eyes pop!

Everyone was cheerful, busy. The people who worked in the stores, the people shopping.
Good paychecks and benefits for the workers, good business for the shoppers.

Now, to hear people tell the story, it's like a haunted castle. A post-apocalypse landscape for a zombie attack.

All the Yuppie brands moved across the road to Bloomie- World.
All the high end store left.
What is left?

February 23, 201
Atrium Mall retailers dwindling
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/newton/2012/02/atrium_mall_retailers_dwindlin.html

I'm just glad, that I was'nt there to see The Atrium's downfall. I only have memories of it's glory.

Was this the final insult, that caused the permanent fall?
Dec 10, 2008

"In the midst of the holiday shopping season, the garage ceiling of the Atrium Mall collapsed,
showering cars in a blanket of debris, Wednesday."

Attorney General Martha Coakley sent federal investigators to the scene to determine the scope
of the incident and whether the collapse could have any relation to the Big Dig.

"Worried shoppers stood in the escalator area of the garage, peering through glass doors
to see whether their cars were among the wreckage.
A drywall slab of roughly 25 feet by 100 feet, folded over the cars like a tent."

http://www.wickedlocal.com/newton/x...arking-garage-ceiling-collapses#axzz1qDHRerxs
 
Wheee! March kite- flying weather? "Gusting past 45mph." I would say so. My trash cans are flying down the driveway.
 
7 mins ago
3/26/2012

{News feed early this morning transmitted pics of TSA officials isolating luggage on the floor.}

"TSA says material was camphor, which can be used as rodent repellant.

Passenger not charged. Rebooked on flight to Beijing tomorrow."

A piece of luggage giving off a strange odor caused 15 people to complain
of nausea at Logan International Airport Monday.
No one was seriously hurt but officials were evacuating the area.
-"The TSA said it closed the baggage room at about 8:20 a.m. after "a container in a checked bag emitted
a vapor during screening that began irritating the eyes of TSA's security officer.

Baggage concourse in terminal A quiet. No sign of any problems
No issues with getting bags.
at 11:33 AM

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/30759954/detail.html

The owners of the bag, who were flying from Boston to Beijing via
Newark, N.J., were questioned but have not been charged.
They were rebooked on a flight to China Tuesday.
 
3/27/012

....dozens of complaints were in the locked files, and nothing was done until after the scandal had exploded in 2002

....better later, than never. Though, 10 years is very late. The Boston newspaper that was heavily loaded with Republicans,
said- "for shame, Boston Globe. Where are your manners ? It has always been the accepted fashion to keep it in house."
Good manners take a back seat with Democrats, when a speeding train threatens to to run over the un-protected
and the unaware.

Each state in the Union, is having it's turn- facts are revealed in the court of law.
Today, Philly sits in the harsh glare of light. Boston just happened to be first.
Now, why would that be?

Democrats, have a better sense of smell? Democrats can tell the difference between ferment, and rot?

All around the mulberry bush
The monkey chased the weasel;
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun
Pop! goes the weasel.

A penny for the parish priest,
A penny for the beadle
That's the way the story goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.

*shudder*

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/17500/17590/jack_box_17590_lg.gif
 
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Did Boston get Fairy Snow, on Sunday night? Maybe. There was a window of time, when it could have blown through.

"In the early days of the Christian church, Easter was celebrated on the Sunday immediately following the first
astronomical full moon after the vernal (spring) equinox."
(but, they did not foresee performing an Easter ritual in New England. Where it snows in the Spring.)

April 2, 2012

Wildcat ski resort in New Hampshire, got the most snow last night, 3-4 inches.
 
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