BS: SPRING!

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 09 Apr 14 - 06:40 PM

'Spring is sprung, the grass is riz' etc is by Ogden Nash.

And hello there Patsy! Long time since you posted.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: kendall
Date: 09 Apr 14 - 07:48 PM

Many years ago, Burma Shave put up a series of signs that were spaced so you didn't have to concentrate on one of them. Like this:

When spring is sprung,

And grass is riz,

Here's where last years careless driver is.
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We now have Crocus in bloom; 'bout time too.
Had a Cooper's Hawk the other day. Plenty of Robins and Cardinals.
I love spring.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Apr 14 - 08:10 PM

Heard a robin today. A little warmer these past few days, hope the ground starts to thaw.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Apr 14 - 08:40 PM

Wash DC suburbs

Tulip Magnolias turning pink! Japanese Cherries threatening to. (next week expectedto be peak) All the Spring flowers quite happy... and several more days forecast. We may survive!

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 10 Apr 14 - 06:51 PM

Hello Eliza

I've been looking after my elderly mother, we lost my father at the beginning of last year and then recently followed by the death of her sister a couple of months ago. So I have been keeping a watchful eye on her making sure that she follows up with her own health issues. Anyway things are improving bit by bit but it was interesting to read your post 'Spring is sprung the grass is riz' because my dad used to recite it every spring! It was lovely to read that. He also used to say 'Fifty fousand feathers on a frushes froat' not very springlike but it just reminded me of it. Good memories.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 11:32 AM

An enjoyable Beaver filming:

Beavers know it's Spring 

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 12:26 PM

Is that site allowed for people under the age of 21? The title sure seems circumspect.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 12:53 PM

No problem... it's censored. Audio but no video for me. I likes me porn with pics/video.

Pushin 20C here and the wind is so wicked I had to expose my bald head to it. Took my hat off and stuffed it in my pocket. So, the snow is shrinking very fast, as it has for over a week. Good thing as the forecast includes a 'special weather statement' : In addition, just behind the cold front, a rapid drop in temperatures to below the freezing mark will likely give icy conditions to many areas of the province Wednesday morning. Near the front rain will change to a brief period of snow and ice pellets over most regions. There is also a risk of freezing rain during this changeover.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 04:54 PM

BTW, Spring my arse. It's snowing here in southern Quebec.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 08:19 PM

UK's two weeks ahead of normal, four weeks ahead of last year.
Our bee colonies are on the point of swarming already (normally May/June). NO colonies lost overwinter after the EU stopped neonicotinoid pesticides on a trial basis.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 11:32 AM

Spring scenes, from The Atlantic:


Spring scenes 

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 12:41 PM

Snow on the ground in Calgary this morning. Dark and drear.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 04:11 PM

I was out early morn with a light hoodie and top oilskins. I went back out at noon... ran back in the house and put on a parka. It's sunny now, but me nipples would be glass without sommat warm over em. This IS spring in The Maritimes.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 05:00 PM

Gnu, It sure was windy here (Halifax) last night and this morning, with rain until mid-day. But, it was not cold, and thd Sun came out in the afternoon today. The grass on my lawn is half way to "greening up".

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: selby
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 06:28 PM

Yorkshire England our neighbour had a swarm of bees in their garden today apparently early for bees. It is very warm for the time of year though.
Keith

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 06:40 PM

Tuesday's snow in southern Quebec was a bit of a shock after the wonderful thaw which had cleared most of the snow but caused flooding of roads - such fun! Still some road closings and a washout on he main thoroughfare to New York State - lovely truck traffic on secondary (tertiary?) roads! But the birds are flying happily and we have reason to believe that warmer weather is ahead...

There are crocuses starting to bloom in the Montreal yard that gets the most sun. The cedars made it through the winter. No more snow in the back yard!!! except the skimming from Tuesday. Nothing compared to the 2 feet there was!

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 02:01 PM

We've had a bit of a cooldown this week but we're completely past the freezes. Now we're into Tornado season. The garden is looking lovely, and I'm still digging out raised beds to finish planting my crops for this year.

I've assessed the winter damage - I lost a number of plants. A lavender vitex (it usually blooms blue) died but there are suckers from the base so I have my fingers crossed I'll be able to regrow it. I had to cut out a lot of dead branches from a large rosemary on the north side of the house, and my bay laurel has been looking dreadful, but once the dead branches are trimmed it is back to it's old self, though diminished by about 1/3.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 02:36 PM

April showers bring forth deluges and flooded wood shops.....

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: JHW
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 02:47 PM

A most unusual concentrated Spring Flora here in NE UK. Primroses and violets always bloom together but this year too we have wood anemones, ragged robin, water avens, cowslips and even bluebells and some garlic all out together in the same woods.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: Janie
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 10:31 PM

Ouch, Bill! Had the hatches battened down here, but it all went east of us. Up the coast to you, eh?

JHW, when I read the descriptions that you and others post in the UK, I yearn to see. I think if I ever was able to travel across the pond, especially in spring, it would be both very familiar and also very different from what I know or have seen.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Apr 14 - 11:05 PM

My next door neighbor in southern Quebec is working on a home carpentry project and he'd like to know what forty cubits is in metric.

Subject: RE: BS: SPRING!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 01 May 14 - 03:25 AM

Hell's Bells and Basins of Cold Sick! We've just had a FROST warning for tomorrow night!! The Pigs!! All our hanging baskets, tubs etc filled with tender (and expensive) plants are outside. The apple and pear blossom is at full throttle; bees (big fat bumbles and honey variety) are out too, attracted by the oilseed rape flowers. Birds are all busy with their nestlings, and now they DARE to send us blasted frost. It'll kill everything! I can't ask my long-suffering husband to hump all those heavy pots and tubs back into the greenhouse. He'd either kill me and bury me under the veggie plot, or head back to Africa in a dudgeon.
Sorry Patsy to hear you've had some bereavements and worries recently.
Hope your mum improves. Some more summery weather might help her!