Right on Time

Last night when I got home from School, the Spring Peepers were peeping loud and clear!

I made my daughter (the only one still up) come out on the front porch and listen.

A sure sign spring is right around the corner for us.

Folks up in Northern Ohio rely on the Buzzards coming home to roost... I'd rather rely on the Spring Peepers :-) The buzzards here rarely leave in the winter anyway. :-)

We've got to get the garden worked up as soon as it dries out a little... time to be planting peas here in just a couple weeks! FINALLY!!!

Is it just me, or has this winter seemed Unusually LOOOOONG?

Melissa

Oh, wow...No peepers just yet for us, but I have heard the melodies of robins, chickadees and other birds a lot. I also see iris leaves peeking out from the leaves out back, and other bits of green here and there. I want to go and just tear away all the detrius from last fall, but something tells me I should leave everyone sheltered for a while longer. C'mon, spring! :)

Splat! Splat! Splat! Splat! Splat! Splat! Splat!......

In case you can't figure out what that means, I'm throwing all our snow towards the southeast, in the form of SNOWBALLS!!! (Might take me a while, but it's good exercise).

I was doing okay with this winter thing until we got blasted with another round of snow and blizzard just after most of the OTHER snow was melted off.

Then I hear talk of pea planting, robins and iris leaves? DOUBLE SPLAT!!! (That's a two handed snowball throw :)

Okay, whoever is sending the guys in the white jackets to haul me away, please tell them I wanna go to zone 8, but zone 5 or 6 would be a great place to stop for a bit.

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But Joan, when it's July and August and we east-midwesterners are huddled inside with our A/C to avoid the crushing humidity, you'll be talking about how nice the weather's been!

Ah, you do get more humidity in the summer. We have mostly dry scorching heat.

So...perfect solution! I'll trade you 20 billion snowballs for each day of humidity. Deal?

Hmmmmmm...Unh-uh. But I would take a change of scenery for a few weeks. What are your typical high temps during the hottest part of the summer there?

Oohhhh I LOVE to hear the peepers!!! I haven't listened/heard them yet. The frogs in my pond were out sunbathing yesterday :)

Kimberley, we get into the 100's easily here. Usually in July.

I heard my first peepers this week AND I am seeing daffodils in bloom AND the forecast is for temps in the 70's for the next two days.........Ooopps, better duck before I get hit with a snowball. Nat

Over 100? Oooh, wow - I think high 80's are our norm, but it's *really* humid. Not as humid as Louisiana, though!

Hiding from Joan's snowballs!

here is a link that tells all about peepers... I don't know how far out west they exist.

http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/peeper.htm

I've got a daf with a bud on it, but still a bit early for them to open yet.

This time of the year you can usually see a big difference within the state. My dafs, will normally start blooming at least 2 weeks before my moms does, and she's only 60 miles north of me.

It's 73 today here in N.E. Ga. Ouch, that snowball hurt!!!!

Peepers are a great sign of spring! I am hearing them and also saw two flocks of geese headed north. I drove past an old homeplace that was covered in March flowers. My King Alford's are later.

Our peepers started last night. I love those guys. We have 2 real frogs too that live in the water garden but they haven't "croaked" yet. There's also an ugly black type frog that lives under a rock in the water garden and he kind of looks like the spawn of satan. We usually only see him when we clean the water garden in the spring and start moving rocks around. He's pretty scary looking.

No peepers heard tonight, but it is going to be in the 70's tomorrow! I *must* go outside for a good bit - been cooped up in the house and am tired of it!

70's????

Schpplaat! (That's a snowball made out of really wet snow)

'Sokay. It'll MELT tomorrow. :D :D

Joan, it's 10:55 PM and it's

63 degrees

Let us gloat because your snowballs are going to hit us about Monday I think. :-(
"Indian Spring" is over for a few days after tomorrow. :-(

Oh man, I can't throw snowballs fast enough to keep up! But, I'll keep throwing them because at least they will melt if I can get them to you. It's 9:52 here and 19 degrees. Not melting here.

So, Splat! Splat! Splat!

If Melissa is right and you get your own snowballs on Monday, I'll quit throwing mine then. :)

OH Joan, I am sending warm thoughts your way......Nat

We actually had windows open until after midnight! Then we left some cracked for the night. Wow! It was so nice. I keep waiting for that last cold blast though. LOL It was not so long ago that we had snow on Easter. I am highly hopeful for the weather to stay this way, but am truly expecting it to get cold once more. It is pleasant out right now, but windy! I think we are supposed to see 70s.
Awww Joan, I'd box some warm weather up and send it to you if I could. :)

We slept with the windows open also. With the warmer temps this week, everything is starting to burst open with buds. Wow, just a week ago, we had snow!

Well it is bright and sunny here and WINDY!! I have all kind of crocus up and some of the little Iris danfordiae as well. Everything else is popping up but not ready to bloom. I hope they don't get blasted by frost or cold and ruined. :(

I would have the peas, spinage, broccoli, lettuce, onions, radishes, cabbage etc, in the ground by now, but man, it's been raining cats and dogs here, and this time of year, it's highly windy out and quite often were under tornado watches thunderstorm watches, we usually don't get to plant til the end of march because of all this mess. but I"m so ready. every thing is coming up out of the ground, i'm setting up spring trades right now, and so excited.
LOL

kathy

I think we got 77 yesterday or the day before. And the windows have been open at night for the last week. I've been sleeping like a baby. Just under one flannel sheet and have to pull up the comforter about 3am. The house smells sooooo much better with that fresh air. My crocus are half way done blooming and my early daffs are in full bloom. My Georgia Blue veronica is beautiful and all the Stella d'Oro are 2 inches out of the ground. The birds are going nuts and I'm refilling the feeders every other day. It will be baby birdie time soon! We had snow a week ago and now all my roses are leafing out and the sweet peas are shooting upwards after their winter stasis. I gotta start digging new beds or it's going to get ahead of me again this year!

Bring on the snowballs. It's worth it and I think by the time they get here they'll just be rain balls anyways. ;)

We slept with the bedroom window open and I've had all our windows open today. It is VERY blustery! A tree branch christened our Buick's hood today; it's from our neighbor's tree, because Howie parks on the street across the street from our house there. Nothing major, just a dented hood.

Oh, what I MEANT to post was, I believe I heard two peepers last night when I walked the dogs around 2am.

Peep............peep
Peep............peep

I think there were just two having a conversation, LOL! I heard a kildeer's cries, too. :)

We got peepers, crocus, daffs,quince,crows, robins, meadowlarks,kildeers(they have a nest with eggs!)

Robins never left this winter,bluebirds are nesting.

Weather in the 60's and 70's.Grass is green and the winter wheat looks like a carpet.

We had high winds last night too...sorry about your car Kim...wish we were closer and I'd get it fixed.

Sorry Joan...just had to gloat...now I'm running instead of ducking...someone will get the tar pot out.

Melody, have you ever seen eagles over on the lakes? I know they nest there sometimes.

Yes, I've seen the eagles. There's also a colony over at Reelfoot Lake nearby in TN, and another group at Horseshoe Lake in southern IL. They are so regal...everyone needs to see an eagle in the wild just once.

There was a nesting pair of bald eagles here in Newark a couple of years ago; I think they left for another place because of the people who kept coming too close to their nesting area when the paper did a story on them. We never got to see them.

"Horseshoe Lake"? I really wanna visit that place next time I'm in the area. (Don't know if they'll let me in IL.)

We have ealges nesting here in NC, and in a protected area. Plus, as a kid, my Grandfather would take us in the Rambler to the back roads and show us these huge eagle nests up in the trees. Quite a site for us.

Yup, there's a Horseshoe Lake about an hour from here up in IL. It was formed along the Mississippi river as the river changed course ofer the years. Lot's of 'oxbows' and 'horseshoes' along the Mississippi.

There's a game preserve there and thousands of Canada Geese migrate there each winter.

The eagle nesting area is protected over in LBL. No visitors during chick raising season to those bays. Right now is a good time to eagle watch. There's no foliage to speak of on the trees and you can see them well. They are just deciding on nest areas and getting ready to start their family.

Sounds like they are "house hunting" right now. Lots of action during this time.

This would be a good time to exercise your camera, Mel! (Like you didn't already know that.)

I have seen eagles at Reelfoot Lake. We went to the southern end of the lake. I just love the cypress trees! It is wonderful for a birdwatcher to behold. I have never seen eagles at LBL.

OK Joan, your snowball hit, can you take it back now please?

BRRRRRR it's 40 degrees and spitting snow! WAAAAAAA


I've not seen an eagle in the wild, only at the zoo, supposedly one used to nest down along the river not far from here. According to my Ecology Prof, it couldn't find a mate, so it left. We do have a couple pairs of Peregrine Falcons not too far from me though, and I have seen them in action. :-)

Okay Melissa, I'd be happy to quit throwing snowballs. My arms are tired and our snow is melting, and now we have snowbanks and lakes. :) It got to high 40's here today and tomorrow they are saying low 50's.

I hope your snow goes away quickly, and with it in the 40's, it should melt as fast as it comes down.

It is snowing lightly this morning here in central Kentucky. The temps are in the upper 30s so it is melting. It is pretty to watch when you know it may be the last one for March.

We have eagles out by where I keep my horses. They are beautiful soaring in the sky. I am pretty near the Illinois River and they winter over here (or at least I only see them in winter). They will be gone fairly soon.

LimeyLisa Kay

Lisa, that would be awesome to see them on a regular basis. I have been in your area. My sister worked as a teacher in Princeton in the 80s. To cold she in now in TN.