5. All Central Oregon motorist have once again the pleasure of being able to engage in Spring's most fun and challenging waste of time: dodging pot holes. Courtesy of ice, cold and the ODOT.

4. The stuff falling from the sky is liquid again, and only a few, random bastions of die-hard snow are hanging on for dear life in the shadows of deep forest. Yes, even here in La Pine.

3. My pets - one dog and two cats - have in unison decided that now would be a good time to shed.

2. People have yet again the unique opportunity to waste endless hours of their precious time at Les Schwab - waiting for their tires to get changed over from studs to regular.

1. I saw two grey squirrels yesterday, playing what I thought upon first glance was a game of tag. When the bigger one suddenly mounted the smaller one, it dawned on me that maybe it wasn't tag they were playing - and that indeed Spring now has arrived in Central Oregon.

Yeah.

I still have a backyard full of snow, and I'm not that far north of LaPine. *sigh*

Really?

I'm just south of Paulina Prairie, and the snow has positively turned into a huge puddle on my lawn.

No more white stuff here.

Halleluja.

You forgot... Flattened rock chucks!

Oh, no!
How could I forget the Flattened Rock Chucks! Of course ...

I also omitted that in conjunction with my cats shedding, they've stepped up their hunting efforts, and are now bringing in not one, but TWO trophies a day (not every day, but it seems when they're on a roll, they doing serious damage to the rodent/bird population). I just can't wait now for the spring baby bunnies - they love to eat those more than anything ... (ick!)