In other news...

[ksmith]

Temps hit the mid-50s (F) today. At least one temperature record was broken. There's still some snow remaining--a *lot* of snow, in some places--but there are also significant patches of bare ground and winter-brown lawn now visible.

Oy, the mud. I'd like to hook the pups to bags and catheters for the next few days.

I saw a robin today, too. I know that some of them don't bother to fly south anymore, but I haven't seen any in months and it's a robin, dammit. It means spring is slowly, slowly getting its act together. My tomato and pepper seeds arrived the other day. It's getting there.

I realize it's only mid-February. Hell, daytime temps are supposed to fall back down to the 30s by early next week, and we usually have a significant snow event in March. This mild stretch could turn out to be a cruel joke, but I'm not thinking about that now.

Comments

[galeni.livejournal.com]

We can tell it's getting into spring here because we had a two hour snowstorm that caused multiple accidents and road closures (and abandoned transit buses) and then it mostly melted away.

Fortunately I was safely at work by the time it got going much, and didn't leave until it was all over. Nasty day to be on the roads.

But this means Spring in Vancouver.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

There were flood warnings posted for a few counties, which unfortunately is another sign of spring.

Robins

[algot runeman (from livejournal.com)]

Robins migrate. The winter ones "here" are from their summer digs further north. The ones "around here" in the summer have gone further south still. [Your "here" and mine may differ, but the robin issue remains the same.]

Re: Robins

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. I didn't realize they migrated in "layers." I assumed the whole vast lot of them wound up in one place.

So I'm probably not looking at returnees yet. Oh well...