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Waiting for summer

It has been a mild winter this season in Northern California. Mild implies less rainfall than usual and mild temps compared to past few years. That is putting it mildly. There is a palpable difference just in a couple years when certain flowering cherry trees in our backyard did a zero to full bloom in 2 days flat - 2 months ahead of schedule. Not entirely sure but perhaps the earth is spinning out of control. At this time we will soon find ourselves facing the possibility that the north and south hemispheres will switch places...actually the hemispheres will do no such thing but the earth might just as soon do a 180 degree flip. Quite confusing as confusing can be as Thomsons would say in my fave Tintin series (Saw that Spielberg directed incarnation recently - not half bad). It takes several degrees of warm up after all to cause the earth to misbehave and then all the degrees go topsy turvy in a manner of speaking.. I for one could care less what the physical weather is doing as long as I can get to do what I love the most - take off to a new lat long for a short period of time. i.e. new destination..plan to cover the isles of Singapore and Malaysia this summer. It will be hot and humid and rainy ...v likely but what the heck .. cannot give up the chance to sample some spicy malay and Indian food along with visiting the Sean Connery fame Petronas buildings.

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