Spring? There's hope.

Here’s a little update on the local weather.  Normally early March is cold, and it’s still snowing.  But this March it’s warm and raining, it’s pouring this morning.  Yesterday the sub was out, and it the temperature got up to 50 degrees.  Now mind you, the weather could be freezing cold, and snowing like mad again any day.  But for now, it’s fairly warm and we’ll be looking at lots of water puddles and rising rivers.

So here are some other observations – the robins are back in town.  I’ll call that more normal than not.  They seem to show about the time some dirt starts to show.  Usually the tree wells are where you’ll see that first.  The red wing blackbirds are here and making their distinctive call.  I’ll call that really normal for early March.

The Star News made their annual trip out on the ice to deposit the ice break up barrel a ways off shore.  They run a contest where you guess when the barrel will first touch the shoreline after the ice breaks up.  Then that will also be the official breakup time.  So the barrels out, but they must have been nervous about the ice, as it’s not very far out there.

And FYI – the above photos are from last spring.  I’m still hurting from knee surgery, and not getting out much.