{"id":35200,"date":"2026-02-12T17:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35200"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:51:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:51:42","slug":"feels-like-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35200","title":{"rendered":"Feels Like Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can tell it’s been hellishly cold when the temperature rises almost<\/i> to freezing and it feels like spring.<\/p>\n

I wore shorts to the bank and the grocery store.<\/p>\n

Still a lot of snow on the ground. That can’t be helped.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Spring will be here soon. Hopefully. Unless the Frost Giants return for more.<\/p>\n

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I had a pan of water on the stove to boil for tea. I left it alone for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

I returned to find it boiling.<\/p>\n

I chanted in a silly voice, “Double!<\/i> Double!<\/i> Toil!<\/i> Trouble!<\/i> Fire!<\/i> Burn!<\/i> Cauldron!<\/i> Bubble!<\/i>”<\/p>\n

I can’t decide if I was imitating Brother Theodore as Gollum or William Conrad as Denethor from the Rankin-Bass Return of the King<\/i>. It may not be either. I think it was closer to the middle.<\/p>\n

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\"FacebookFacebook was excited to dub me a “top fan” of Congressman Lloyd Smucker.<\/p>\n

No! Belay! Do not want!<\/p>\n

Have you read this letter<\/i>? Or this letter<\/a>? And these aren’t the only ones. There are more where these came from!<\/p>\n

Some he replies to. Several he has not. I didn’t receive a reply to my letter about taco trucks in Dallastown and how we need them.<\/p>\n

I’m sure Scott Perry thought I was a crank. Smucker probably does as well.<\/p>\n

Point being, I am not a “top fan.” I’m as far away from a “top fan” as you can get and still be within the observable universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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