Yesterday was warm and sunny and we spent a good part of the morning sitting on the deck. After a long winter it felt great to be sitting outside in the sun. Even if the snow was piled high around the deck making, it hard to see over the top of the pile. With the onset of warm weather I have seen several chipmunks out and about having come out of hibernation. Clearly spring is on its way and the next few weeks will bring gradually warming temperatures and thawing ice.
I spent a good part of this afternoon getting things out in anticipation of the coming season. Not everything to be sure, the busy part of the year is still a ways off, the detail items that make things flow. Fresh batteries in the GPS, go over the first aid kit, make sure there are matches in my match safe. I also put some retail items in the Yukon so that they will be handy if needed.
I know that spring is not just around the corner but today in all of the cold and wind (high temperature of 18) I saw a bunch of robins on the side of the North Union Road. They were in a crabapple tree making the most of the small frozen fruits and in fact had dropped a bunch on the snow below the tree. I have to admit that even after seeing them in February for the last few years I am still startled to see them in the cold and snow.
