I'm looking out my window at a large flock of robins. They have been sitting in my backyard oak for the last hour and a half. Really, I cant believe that they are here so early. I had to call my mother over to confirm that I was not imagining things.

Certainly true here in central AZ. Was 89° at my house day before yesterday. My oranges & lemons which I normally don't pick until late March have been brought in starting three weeks ago. Picked the last of them a week ago today.

Because they get plenty of water and it has been a VERY mild winter, many of the lemons are the size of grapefruit!

We didn't really get a winter, we'll be paying for it in water bills next summer...if there is enough of it to sell.

89 degrees!!!
And I thought that we were having a warm spell with a high of 25. Its supposed to be in the mid to upper 30's tomorrow, shorts weather.

I've had flocks of robins and waxwings in my trees for about two weeks here in North Texas. We topped-out at 73 degrees today, and the rest of the week looks like more of the same.

The bluejays have managed to make it to the birdfeeder despite torrential rain the past couple of days here in western Washington. Oh well, better green landscape than brown....

I'm at 5000 feet in the mtns of Central Az. High 60s, low 70s for the past 2 weeks. Bull snakes are out along the road already. Rattlesnakes won't be far behind.

Strange stories ! This morning at the diner I put in a dollar for the pool to when the big pile of snow from the plows would melt .Very interesting dates were picked, many months away !

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Originally posted by thecanadian:
I'm looking out my window at a large flock of robins. They have been sitting in my backyard oak for the last hour and a half. Really, I cant believe that they are here so early. I had to call my mother over to confirm that I was not imagining things.

They are going to get a cold dose of reality in the next week snow and cold temps again.

Early Spring??? We never had a winter in Southern Colorado. We usually have 4 to 6 weeks of -25 or less and this year so far, we only had 4 days of cold. Right now at home, it is 40 degrees and sunny.

Spent the afternoon in the hills behind my house today. Buds beginning to show among the branches. Trees beginning to leaf out, if ever so lightly. Visibility through the bush not as clear as it was last week. Grass getting softer.

Feels different.

Feels good.

14 inches of fresh snow on Friday spent yesterday shoveling the snow off my pole shed.

There was 32 inches on it should have held but a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
14 inches of fresh snow on Friday spent yesterday shoveling the snow off my pole shed.

There was 32 inches on it should have held but a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I made the mistake of putting off shoveling until the next day, when it all froze. I bet there was only 5in, but it took me nearly 2hr to do my driveway.

And this is the problem here in Austin. In early March we have SXSW fest (hell we have a fest almost every weekend).The problem is that all of these out of townters see Tejas in the spring + want to move here .Oughta try it in August.Great for the realtors but tough for the real ones of us whjo live here.......not to mention what this influx has done to our property taxes.

I am thinking that maybe by July or August we will get spring.
Never got summer from last year yet.

They said the high for today in Dallas would be 43. They just changed that to 30. It's 25 now with sleet, at 2:00pm. I don't think it will make 30.

The low tonight will be 12. then 37/19 tomorrow; they say.

One of my Mexican Plums bloomed yesterday, when it was 81.

Well our Sprang had a little hitch n it overnight. Combining yesterday and all last night we had approximately 2" of rain here in the desert. High temp yesterday was in the low 70s.

But this morning there is bright sunshine again and temps are supposed to be back up in the mid-80s+ by Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thank God! Last night I had to turn the electric blanket up from "low" to "2". Enough of that!

I got another sign of Spring this morning when I was raking some litter from around a stump on the side of my property today and suddenly noticed I was raking snakes; little sluggish ones, about 6" long. They looked like gray racers, which is the most common snake I see around here.

Last weekend the temperature dropped 60 degrees in about 12 hour. This weekend it looks like 60 to 70 degrees and sunshine. The grand-daughter is off for Spring Break. Looks like the weather is going to cooperate.

In the Catskill Mtns yesterday morning 0 F. this morning 0 F . But in the PM sun came out ,up to 40 F. Eagles , first vulture ,redtails courting ,lots of birds chirping !! Maybe !