It’s Spring-I just know it.
Posted by Kirk M on 25 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Just Thinkin
It’s Spring I just know it, despite all evidence to the contrary. Somewhere under all that snow and the giant mound of it in the front yard (contributed to by our neighbor, us, the roof and the sidewalk plow), and the currently cold temperatures, Spring is already here at the end of February, 10 miles from the border of Canada—I just know it.
So how do I know it?
I’ve seen the signs of change I have.
And what may these signs be you ask?
Boy, you ask good questions and I shall attempt to answer them.
The cats are going nuts for one. Okay, so cats are generally nuts to begin with but this isn’t your ordinary nuts. This is Spring’s coming type nuts. Running helter skelter, beating the crap out of each other, running from window to window in wide-eyed wonder sniffing (like they could smell anything through the Winter window plastic), listening and looking. The kind of behavior one only observes in the standard house cat when Spring arrives or is totally zonked out on catnip.
Birds have been heard in the area—Spring birds, not the Winter type. We don’t exactly wake up to a happy chorus of robins working on their new nests and calling for mates, nothing like that but the early arrivals such as the Blue Jay (yes, they do go just a bit south in the Winter) has been heard in the area along with a couple other calls you wouldn’t hear around these parts until Winter had moved out if not the snow itself.
And the third and most sure sign of this early event is…
I’m feeling it. We’re both feeling it. Especially in the morning when we (attempt to) get up. Oooohhh Yeah! The mornings have most assuredly become an adventure in movement right enough.
Be that as it may, every season change is unique and our bodies and instincts, at least for those sensitive enough to recognize it, begin to react accordingly. It’s as if the body is gearing up for something (not always a pleasant experience for those of us not in their 30’s), a sense of expectation is in the air and your emotions become slightly out of balance. Fortunately, unlike those crazy cats of ours, we don’t scramble from window to window in wide-eyed wonder as well. The neighbors might begin to think we’re strange or something and whisper ill of us to others.
So despite the biting wind and freezing temperatures, Spring has slid herself under the blanket of snow and, smiling to herself in anticipation, is just waiting for the opportune moment to pop her head out and say; “HI(!)…mud season is coming early this year! Got your muck boots ready I hope ’cause you’re going to need them“.
Hope does spring eternal doesn’t it?
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on 26 Feb 2007 at 7:33 pm 1.Elaine said …
Is it really going to come early?? Don’t know how much more of this I can take. I’m holding you to your word Kirk…March better be better
on 27 Feb 2007 at 10:14 am 2.KirkM said …
I hope March is better, if it isn’t you might not stop by anymore
No, with the robin sighting yesterday, I hold by what I said—Spring is here, Elaine. Somewhere under all that snow she lies doing what she does best and warmer weather is right around the (virtual) corner.
Be patient my friend, it will happen and soon.
So says Mister Know-It-All.