Flashback to March 1, 1986. We learned about that silly saying “March comes in like a lion/lamb and out like a lamb/lion.” Everyone in my class was to decide if March 1986 had come in like a lion or a lamb. It was obvious to me… it came in like a lion. Then everyone got a paper plate. We were to make a lion head out of construction paper if we thought March came in like a lion, or a lamb head out of cotton balls if March came in like a lamb. Well, I made a lion head, even though the lambs were cuter and soft, but most of the class made lambs, I recall. So either:
1) They wanted to make lambs because their friends were making lambs, or
2) They had severe misjudgements about the weather outside, or
3) They realized that the lambs were cuter and easier to make.
It could have been a combination.
I should have made a lamb because it was cuter and softer, even if my ability to judge the weather far surpassed my peers. March 1986 was obviously coming in like a lion.
I have spent some time outside today and I determine that March in St. Louis has come in like a lion, not like a “very, very cold lamb” like the weather forcaster said on the news last night. It’s wicked cold and nasty out there! I am looking forward to the end of March.
Happy spring!
hey Lisa,
i think this is your funniest post ever! by the way, here in phoenix, march came in like a gentle lamb. i promise it will go out as a lamb as well (possibly a cooked one). LYLAS!
Comment by mike — March 2, 2005 @ 1:56 am
Here in Denver I’m pretty sure it comes in like a lamb and goes out like a kind of less bristly lamb. WHERE’S MY WEATHER DAMMIT!???!?!
Comment by Daniel Poth — March 2, 2005 @ 2:04 pm