It's Spring! It's started. I saw my first robin this morning. It was sitting in the blue spruce tree directly out the window from my desk. A second sure sign of spring is that the male mourning doves are constantly pestering the females, like they won't leave them alone. Bunches of skunks are road kill, so they are coming out of hibernation.

No frogs gurping in the swamp across the road. No pussy willows or forsythia. They're next.

But, it won't be true spring until I see the first snake in my basement or under my kitchen table. Snakes come out when the ground has warmed up enough for their cold-blooded body. Believe me, I don't let them stay in the house if I can help it. I have a snake stick that NB rigged up for me and I catch them and take them across the highway. Anyway, that's another story.

I can't wait-yea, Spring! :)