You know it's spring because...

I know it's spring now, as I've found 3 months worth of dog crap in the backyard that was previously hidden from view.

Actually, for a couple of weeks I could see it....but it was frozen into the sheet of ice and compacted snow. Time to put on the waders and shovel some ****.

 

My commutes now register 25 mpg for the first 5 minutes and subsequent 75+ bars thereafter (mileage is getting better with bald tires. Maybe I'll keep them?!)

I was outside last night and heard all the leaves moving about from all the insects emerging from the soil.

I am smiling more.

 

The snakes are dancing...

from another forum I frequent:

 

The little accidental coleus cutting that I had rescued from my mom's driveway last summer and that was rooting in water in my cupholder ashtray:



... is now all grown up with a 6" flower:

 

Hope you checked on the level and condition of the PS fluid, and the condition of the belt.

 

Hopefully your wife won't be somewhere in BFE with the van when the belt snaps ...

 

Oh, that's ok then. We already have a pretty good life insurance policy on you.

:evil:

 

Ssshhhhhh! That was *my* idea ....

 

I don't "count" on spring until June or so.

There was June of 2004 we had a heavy wet snow. I was almost tempted to slap winter tires on again. Instead I waited it out for 3 days

 

Wow.....that all sounds so weired on so many levels............ I know I will be miserable in July, August and September, but I don't think I could trade the heat for snow again. I was born and raised a Yankee but "my blood is now too thin..."

 

That's cause for gloating???

I consider it a good summer if I never have to turn on the A/C, just turn on the window fan at night.

I grew up in MN and moved to TX after college for a year and a half. My colleagues would ask about MN weather and say "why would anybody live there?" to which I'd respond "why would anybody live here except for work?" In the winter it's brown, not white & green, you can't go skiing or snowmobiling or sledding or snowshoeing or ice skating, then you have about 3 weeks of good weather in the spring (the bluebonnets were very nice!), then a long hot, humid summer where it's not enjoyable to be outside at all, and maybe 2 weeks of good weather in the fall before it's brown again.

No, I'm ready for spring now because I like the flowers and short-sleeve shirt weather (60'F+), but I really wasn't done enjoying the snow yet. We had a good Dec-Jan, but Feb didn't have nearly enough snow for my son and myself.

Here in Chicagoland, the sandhill cranes can be heard flying over, grackles are back, and I saw a robin today. My daffodils are poking up around the mailbox.

I suppose pretty soon I'll have to update my avatar to be seasonally appropriate.

 

If ornithology is an indicator -- it's been spring in South Jersey since December, when I began watching a mating pair of Great Horned Owls. With eyes like this:

Year round residents, they begin courtship in Dec/Jan. when it's 25F. Now I'm looking for chicks.

Maybe I'll try Hooters.

 

I know it's spring because...

- The dog cannot out-bark the birds' chirping

- The dog-park is now once again a minefield

- The dog has "trouble" finding a clean spot to do her thing

- The dog can no longer find soft snow to eat no matter how hard she attacks a straddler snowbank

 

Maybe you should try eHarmony.com !

 

I left for the Philippines 10 days ago, we had a near blizzard the night before I left. The day I left it was -3F. Got back today, no more snow, car thermometer reads 48F, ice melting on the lakes, no snow, as we were coming in on final to MSP, I see a bald eagle circling below our plane. But after 10 days in the RP, it still felt cold here.