A Long Winter

March 13, 2008 - 75 degrees in southwest Virginia. Spring is still a week away, but this is our first big tease. We had a couple days in the 60s, but they didn't have that smell, that enveloping warmth that tells you it's time to start tending to the yard.

Coming home from work today, I saw sprinklers going, teenagers in shorts hanging out by the firehouse. I heard a lawn mower. The birds sound like they've been here and ready for a week, although I hadn't really noticed them until today.

We had almost no snow this winter, but still winter went on and on and on and on. Cold didn't want to let loose. Maybe it's just the way the end of my winter has gone, but dang, it sure seemed like it would never go away.

The weekend will be cooler and a bit rainy, but Spring is here. Thank you, thank you! Spring is here!

. . . well, that was yesterday. Blogger had some sort of outage, so I didn't get around to posting that, so now, Friday, 6:30 PM, it's cloudy and getting chilly. Rainy weekend in store, but I think we might squeeze in tomorrow's St. Patrick's parade. Let's hope.

More to come. I guess it's time to get back in the game or give it up, one or the other.