March Goes Out Like a Lion in the Northeast Kingdom

I think everyone here will be happy to see the end of March - except we know April 1st could be a real April Fool's Day if the weather continues true to past history.

We did errands in St. Johnsbury this morning and then decided, since there was no rain or snow happening, we'd run down to Woodsville, New Hampshire, to see the new Wal-Mart Super Store. Going down was uneventful except we saw some nice deer enjoying munching on the bare ground near the interstate. We didn't see them in time to get a picture, though. Even though we knew where we were going, we tried out our On-Star turn-by-turn navigation system - way cool!

Wal-Mart was predictably large, although not as big as some in urban areas, and we thought perhaps they aren't quite fully stocked yet even though one of the very pleasant clerks assured us they were "pretty much." There weren't very many people in the store, and that made it very nice for picture taking. We were there perhaps an hour, and when we came out of the store we were very surprised to find we were in a blizzard. There were three or four inches of wet, heavy snow on our car and the streets were filled with slush. We debated whether to go up Rt. 5 or take the interstate. Fred was driving so I left that decision to him. Almost as soon as we got onto the interstate, we saw a car off the road. Fortunately, there wasn't much traffic and we had no trouble, and as we progressed north, there was much less snow and the driving was ok. However, when we got to our exit to get onto Rt. 2 west, it was clogged with a couple of big trucks that apparently hadn't been able to make it up the exit ramp. The police were there, and we decided not to wait for things to clear. We took the next exit that comes onto Rt. 5 by Price Chopper and went through St. Johnsbury to get onto Rt. 2. Once clear of town and headed towards Danville, the road was fine, and here at home there wasn't much new snow at all. We were glad to get back to our warm hearth, though. Here are the photos we took along the way. Slides

We want to remind everyone that tomorrow is the last day you can buy and/or mail in your Joe's Pond Ice-Out Tickets, so if you haven't taken care of that, better get busy. Even though it doesn't look like the ice will ever go out, we know it's going to melt eventually, so get your best guess in tomorrow!