I Live in Minnesota...

...so it's time for the obligatory "Minnesota sucks when will spring get here" post.  If you have any Facebook friends who are Minnesotan, you'll know what I mean.  And truthfully, as much as I love winter--this is getting ridiculous.

I mean, it's April 21, and this is what my back yard looked like on Friday morning, two days ago:

This would be breathtakingly lovely in, say, December.  

On the plus side, I had the time to take the pictures because we had a two-hour late start at school.

So how much snow did we actually get?  Well, you know the saying "knee high to a grasshopper?" This was elbow high on a Staghound.

Anyone who owns a dog knows that everything smells better when it's covered in snow.

Except, of course, the dog.

And these guys, on our pond, were clearly regretting their decision to come north so soon.

But the saddest sight post-snowfall is this:

Yes, that's the oval.  

The oval is scheduled to open May 6 for inlining.  The aggressive skate park features are partly put together so once the snow melts they'll probably get the place ready pretty quickly...but right now it looks very January-ish.

Emphasis on the "ish."