Post-[solstitial]* equinoctial

[shewhomust]

It must be spring, because it's klwilliams's birthday - and I hope it's a good one!

At the Farmers' Market the winter veg growers told us that it's spring now, and they won't come again until the autumn - but like everyone else, they were complaining of the cold.

As always, complaints about the weather must be calibrated for the expectations of people living on a small island in the Gulf Stream; nonetheless, there was a sifting of snow on the ground this morning, like sugar on a doughnut.

ETA: please to interpret the square brackets as a strike through, which I don't seem able to mark up.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean post-equinoctial? (Technically, of course, we are post-solstitial - but we're also and equally pre-solstitial, so...)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Of course I do.

Intersolstitial, that's what we are: not quite perfectly and equally so, on account of the Gregorian calendar, but still.

And I was meaning to ask you, with all this talk of ovens, how's the bread? Has it recovered its equilibrium?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

The bread is back to excellence (I think) - but the process has changed. I do find this weird. I used to start a loaf in the morning and back it in the early evening; now I start the dough the previous day, leave it overnight, shape it in the morning and bake it in the afternoon. Whether the yeast really needs the extra time - and why that should be - I am not qualified to say, but it's working nicely. I just have to remember "I shall want new bread tomorrow," which isn't always easy.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's not snowing here, though when I opened a window last night because I was too warm, somebody [eyes my husband] complained that he was too cold. So we're not at summer yet.