Warm weather finally arrived like a five-ton load pulled by a pair of mismatched oxen—in three-foot increments and with tremendous effort.
This spring, it seemed that no amount of goading and chortling could convince April and May to give up more than a few consecutive days of sunshine. The pair just had their minds set against the yoke! Bullheaded and uncooperative, they dug in their heels for eight full weeks, while the population of New England wore itself out, cheering them on from various cold and sodden corners of all six states.
