i don't see you out walking children in nature

Today was the big melting -- sunny for most of the day and up in the 40s. As an aside, one way to tell that you've had a lot of frakkin' snow is when it's day 5 and it's been sunny and in the 40s twice plus rained all of one of the other days and your front yard is mostly still covered in snow. I've enjoyed having snow on the ground. Sure it's starting to get pretty raggedy by now but it's a nice change of pace. But I'll be glad to see it gone just so I can stop hearing people bitch about how badly the city/state/whoever has handled snow removal, street cleaning, school closings, etc. And how snow apparently magically disappears after 2 days up north. Or something. I had a longer rant about this in mind but I think it must have melted today...