April 22, 2005 - Top Ten Signs Spring is Here

I'm sensing Spring is just around the corner.

Or at least I stubbornly tell that to myself every day now. Because I'm tired. Tired of winter. Tired of the cold. Tired of the snow. I want sun and bone-scorching heat and cool showers and walking barefoot in the grass - so bad I can taste it.

But there are signs that Spring is indeed here.

10. I look out my window at 9am, and it's snowing.
9. I look out my window at 3pm, and it's sunny with blazing blue skies.
8. I look out my window at 6pm, and a fierce wind storm is ripping through the trees around my house. I shake my head and go hibernate some more.
7. My car is actually adhering to the road again.
6. The bunny rabbits, squirrels and birds in my yard regularly go crazy and chase their own up and down and through the trees at dizzying speeds. I get a headache just watching them.
5. The blower motor in my home's heating system decides to burn up and quit - and I have the sudden and random urge not to replace it until Fall. But then I remember the lore of snow in July here in La Pine and decide to get it fixed anyway.
4. I can sense the lawnmower in my garage stirring. He's hungry and can't wait either.
3. Three sets of Canadian Geese with their goslings in various stages of grown-up-ness visit my cracked corn feeder. Right now, each family has right around 6 goslings. The countdown is on...
2. I walk out the door in the morning, and the bright yellow of a freshly emerging Daffodil catches my eye. I oogle over it and thank Mother Nature for the beautiful gift.
1. The next morning, I go to visit the Daffodil again. It's been mowed to the ground. Same with all the other flowers in the vincinity. The deer are back. I guess it must be Spring.