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Bill Bailey has kept a log of temperatures and weather conditions ever since he moved to Amissville four years ago. A few April and May entries in that log during the past two years show that it’s hard to predict late spring weather in Rappahannock.

In 1974, on April 29. 89 degrees; on April 30, 94 degrees and the swallows were building a nest in the barn; on May 5. cold enough for a fire in the fire place; on May 8, 20 degrees and a ‘‘killing" frost; on May 26, cold enough for a fire in the fireplace at 24 degrees; on May 27, the first straw

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