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Spring is here!

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by caffeinekid, Mar 20, 2011.

  1. caffeinekid

    caffeinekid Duct Tape Extraordinaire

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    Well.....here in Texas anyway. We had our first two additions to the turtle community show up in our pond yesterday. Here's a photo of one of them next to a nickel.
     

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    Amen! It has been a long winter.
     
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    Yay! We had Eostara ritual last night with friends. On the menu for the pot luck dinner was Spring Greens soup, which included some fresh greens picked from the garden, and some very young dandelion greens!

    It was lovely, out in the evening, listening to the frogs singing (spring peepers), and smelling the wetlands that was across the road. Days are getting longer, and the air is losing a lot of its chill. Our fruit trees and bushes are getting some heavy buds on them.

    Oh, and I just love turtles! :)
     
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    cool! i love turtles, they are unique. we walk down to the river every day and look for them. few more weeks around here i'm afraid. 40 and sunny today, chance of snow tomorrow.
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    We had snow yesterday. Today a bit of rain, so now we can see some bare ground.

    Tom
     
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    For a moment, I thought you may have made turtle soup! :eek:
    (I know I've read you're vegan, but it was just so suspenseful for a sec :p)

    ck, that is one cute terrapin! Enjoy watching them grow this year.
    Have you ever been to the coast to watch the baby Loggerheads emerge?
     
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    First day of spring in New England and it's snowing, sigh.
    However, my crocus are coming up so there's still hope!
     
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    Aah, Eostara, a derivitive of Ostara, the celebration of spring equinox. I guess this is a Germanic or maybe Celtic origin since Eostre is a German goddess of spring. Of course, this is also the same connection time as the Christian Easter, and the Jewish Passover.

    Sorry, but I hadn't come across the Eostara word in a long time. So let's rejoice and celebrate the joys, fragrances, colors and textures of spring beauty, longer days and abundances of funshine! Welcome Spring.
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    We are supposed to get another six inches today.

    Tom
     
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    That's what she said.
     
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    Robins and blackbirds are back in Chicago, the ice went out on the local ponds. Crocii are popping up. I've seen a couple cyclists. And we're getting some snow on Friday, hail/sleet last night, so we know it's really spring.
     
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    So, while the season of spring has sprung elsewhere, seemingly something else sprang up in Michigan
     
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    If spring is sprung, then hummingbirds can't be far away. I've yet to spot the season's first ruby-throated hummingbird here in Carolina, but my feeders are filled and waiting for some action.
     
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    We are knee deep in snow today, with more coming.

    Tom
     
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    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and right now you're beholdin' a lot of springtime snow. I used to live in lower MI/NW Ohio and I just had to move south to get away from the weather.
     
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    Awesome!

    Baby red-eared slider?

    Spring seemed to have came early to Norcal but then winter came back with a vengeance! lol In all we are up on rainfall which is awesome news. Rainfall for this season is already at 38 inches for Auburn (foothill oak woodland) and 23 inches for Lincoln (valley grassland). Contrast that with 2007-2008 where rainfall barely reached 22inches in Auburn and 11 inches in Lincoln.

    The drawback is I keep pushing back restoration days for our burrowing owl project and tree plantings. :(

    Nerfer, how is your project going? Curious if precipitation is different for you and if it is having an effect.
     
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    I pretty much need showshoes to make it to the street now. My outside doors open only by pushing snow out of the way. The streets are very slippery, but remain passable due to our excellent snow removal.

    I think I like winter better than spring.

    Tom
     
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    Yeah, we should clean out the bluebird houses now. They're not nesting yet, but could be checking for nesting sites. I need to look into the wood duck season, those boxes need some updates, they haven't been maintained properly for awhile. Spring peepers (frogs) were singing last weekend, but the snow this week probably quieted them down now.

    Precipitation is normal. But we got some good rains in before we were able to do the controlled spring burns, and now the Eurasion plants are greening up, and it may not burn as well.
     
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    I hear you. I had to scrape the windshield on my Prius yesterday again. I don't mind winter, I don't mind spring, it's the wishy-washy period in-between that is frustrating.