Sleet, Snow, Wind, Cold (24 degrees F) and Beautiful Spring Blossoms

Yesterday we had snow, sleet, and wind, it looked briefly like a blizzard, and it coated our decks.  The air temp was about 40 degrees F so it quickly melted.

This morning on Wednesday April 16 it was cold and clear, 24 degrees F, I had to scrape ice off of the car windows.

Last week one day it almost hit 80 degrees F, a lot of trees are flowering and it is very beautiful right now. 

White stuff on the driveway yesterday, not snow this time

Came home yesterday and found a few large "LOC ->" messages spray painted in white on our gravel driveway.   Apparently the local telecom is preparing to install fiber optic cables in our area. 

We have lived on the farm now for 7 years and we have had a DSL internet connection the whole time.  Our internet speed has never exceeded a maximum of 1150 KBPS (that is just a little over one mega bit per second) and it goes down from there.  

It would be nice to have a better internet connection, however our main concern is the reliability of the system and actual bandwidth during peak usage times.