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Not April Fools?

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  Feeling confident about our late stay in the tropics this April, we expected to avoid final blasts of winter that were being thrown at 'all the folks back home'. Just when the weather app promised sunny shorts-weather and you’ve made eye contact with a patch of green grass, boom—everything is frosted like a cupcake again. Yep, nature dusts everything in a suspiciously cheerful layer of sparkle, but I'm not buying it!  The optimistic will try to remind you not to worry because "spring is just around the corner". Let me remind you that winter's 5x encore performances were -- unrequested. (No mas!) However, let's look on the bright side of all the benefits: You get to experience all four seasons in a single week! A budget-friendly climate sampler. Fashion rules totally collapse, because no one knows how to dress anymore. The earth needs the moisture. (And so do my feet, apparently.) Procrastination was a good thing because you didn't put away your boots...