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Subject: Signs of spring From: CarolC Date: 17 Mar 01 - 08:49 PM If you live in the northern hemisphere, in a place with separate and distince seasons, you may be experiencing/looking forward to signs of spring. Here in eastern West Virginia, I've been hearing robins calling, and there are crocuses blooming. I saw a field of some sort of green crop just showing a couple of inches above the surface of the soil a few days ago. I think I'm ready for spring... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Matt_R Date: 17 Mar 01 - 09:05 PM Here in North Carolina, the fact that it's sunny and 77 degrees outside is more than a sign! Oh course, it's going to be 52 and rainy on Monday! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: catspaw49 Date: 17 Mar 01 - 09:07 PM S P R I N G
Print, cut out, and stick next to a crocus for a second "sign" of spring. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: GUEST,Noreen Date: 17 Mar 01 - 09:44 PM The howling wind here would only blow it away, Spaw... :0) There was a lovely fresh smell in the air this morning, which made me think of spring. Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: CamiSu Date: 17 Mar 01 - 10:34 PM It was warm and drippy and bright all day. The lambs are playing king of the hill. But there is still so much snow I don't think I'll see the croci for a while. Oh, and the sap is running. I can deal, spring is HERE!!!!!!!! CamiSu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: DancingMom Date: 17 Mar 01 - 10:49 PM My daffodils are springing up all over the place. It's 60 one day and 40 the next. We're getting there! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: gnu Date: 17 Mar 01 - 10:49 PM It must be spring here. The robins I have been feeding apples to for the last two months haven't been around the yard for more than a week. They were coming into people's yards looking for whatever they could get because we've had so much snow. Many people around here have never seen a "wintering robin"... some call them stunned robins for not heading south for the winter. I just felt sorry for them and put out apples every day. Maybe when it warmed up, the apples fermented and they are now sleeping it off. Seems appropo for St. Pat's. On a more human note, the "Home Shows" and "Lifestyle Shows" are cropping up, all aimed at showing us stuff we would like to have / do / build this summer, but haven't got the money for. But they've got lots of saps running to the shows. gnu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Amos Date: 18 Mar 01 - 12:34 AM One sure sign of Spring is the sound of sap running richly through the threads. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: CarolC Date: 18 Mar 01 - 12:57 AM The cool thing about the Mudcat, Amos, is that since it's global, and spring happens somewhere in the world practically all year long, we can pretty much always have sap running richly through the threads. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: gnu Date: 18 Mar 01 - 01:22 AM Amos...if I am a sap for feeding robins when they are starving, then you must be the kind of person who wouldn't feed a starving robin. Now, that's sounds sappy in a different way to me. Have a pleasant spring and I hope a thousand robin red breasts sweetly sing outside your bedroom window each morning, EARLY, and shit all over your car. gnu
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: roopoo Date: 18 Mar 01 - 02:19 AM My car is parked on the drive near to a very big old lime tree. It is always prone to being "decorated", but once those birds really start nesting in earnest... The collared doves are the worst. (Autumn's interesting, when the birds have been on the elderberries and blackberries!)Late spring/summer is also a pain when the honeydew from the tree and its insect inhabitants (greenfly, isn't it?) starts dropping on everything in sight and the muck welds itself onto the car. There used to be another tree between the lime and my property. It had to be felled, as it was unsafe and bits kept falling off it (it was a Tree of Heaven), but my neighbours replaced it with a horse chestnut tree that their son had grown from a seed. Now just imagine in a few years when that beggar's grown, what state the roof of my car will be in at conker time! Still, in the garden the unwanted seedlings are growing furiously, the blue tits are investigating the nest box, the sparrows have been observed picking up nesting material on the yard so that they can start and refill my house roof, and my dog has had its first haircut of the year. Also, I didn't need to put on a coat to go across the road to the pub last night. Yep, spring must be around somewhere. Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Jon Freeman Date: 18 Mar 01 - 06:29 AM Snowdrops dying down, daffodils and primroses in flower in the garden. Jon (Norfolk, UK) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Jeri Date: 18 Mar 01 - 09:09 AM If my snowdrops come up anytime soon, they're going to do so under a couple feet of snow. Makes me want to go shovel the lawn off. Oh well, at least it appears to be melting quickly now that the temperatures regularly get above freezing in the day time. This also means taps in the maple trees - another sign of impending spring. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Peg Date: 18 Mar 01 - 09:16 AM Well I saw my first robin the other day; that did it for me! We still have a fair amount of snow on the ground here; there are worries that there will be flooding if it nmelts too fast. It wil get cold again this week so that will slow it down a bit which is good. (Also good as I am going to Florida on Wednesday!) My daylilies are coming up; have not seen any other spring flowers; the bluebells in the neighborhood are under snow still...I have a tree full of pussywillows (sadly it has not been pruned in years so the "pussies" are too high up to pick..) yesterday sunrise and sunset were exactly twelve hours apart! talk about Equinox! I shall fast (well, not totally abstain from food; just fruits and nuts and herbal tea) for the next three days as spring arrives; I do this at fall equinox too... Peg
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Micca Date: 18 Mar 01 - 09:49 AM We have Daffodils....!!!!! and Primroses, the snowdrops have gone, but the green leaves of the bluebells is visible....and we dont need to put a nightlight under the bird bath to stop it freezing anymore....and Peg, give my best wishes and a big hug to Fritz and Wren and greetings from me..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Amos Date: 18 Mar 01 - 10:39 AM Sorry for the grumpy post, there, gnu -- wasn't aimed at you. Been on the job too long, or something. Regards, A |
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Subject: Signs of spring in PY From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Mar 01 - 10:42 AM The day comes when despite all the other tactile signs of winter, you step out to fetch the mail and the air is redolent with the thawing, rotting, liquefying manure spread deep on fields round about, all winter. You pause to give thanks that the only houseguests expected in coming weeks know this as a positive development, themselves. The smell is oppressive, but it's usually gone before it's warm enough to eat or pick out on the front porch, anyway. And then there will be fireflies in the air instead, hatched in the deep brush cover bordering the fields in nature's snowbreaks and in the deer cover lining the low-cutting creek. A few days later comes the sighing of the mourning doves. This year they run a sweet bass line under the honks of Canada geese who have chosen the ridge that overlooks our little hollow as a resting point on their way to Orillia and points north. (Amos' well-written line can be taken positively too-- Sap... heck, it's a GOOD thing. This thread itself, calling us to spring, is one sound of sap running in the threads, see? Well done, friend.) ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Mar 01 - 10:56 AM Them clones is QUICK. Took out the right one, too. Thanks. (I had double-posted with a correction.) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Tig Date: 18 Mar 01 - 11:01 AM Just been out to fill up my bird feeder which is in the hawthorn hedge opposite the house and find that the buds on it are all turning green and starting to open. The daffodils are open - and I got hailed and snowed on when I went to the Sunday Market!!!! So much for Spring in Yorkshire. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Jon Freeman Date: 18 Mar 01 - 11:11 AM Tig, We had snow in Norfolk yesterday morning but it didn't last long although if seems to have gone colder again - the weather doesn't really seem as if it knows what it's doing here. Susan, We have a system with taking what look to be duplicates out - the earliest post get zaps first. If there have been corrections, it is likely that the last post is the right one and working in the same order avoids the risk of all posts getting deleted if 2 JoeClones happen to be working on the same thread at the same time. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Long Firm Freddie Date: 18 Mar 01 - 11:11 AM Here in Sarf London, I've just had the council tax bill and the water rates bill, and I'll be laying in stocks of anti-histamine for my hayfever shortly (season starts early for me!).
But the daffs are out, the crocuses are great, the squirrels are chasing each other round the garden, and I've changed the wallpaper on my Adobe PhotoDeLuxe software to its Spring setting.
Soon the clocks will go forward, and in four weeks time I'll be eating too much chocolate.
The lawnmower will be coming out of the garage soon, and everything in the garden will conspire against me by deliberately growing.
Blossom is starting to show, and a big girl she is too.
As I type, a big black rain cloud has gathered and we're in for a mighty soaking.
Oh to be in England now that April's nearly there! (She's a good friend of Blossom's) LFF |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Mar 01 - 11:18 AM Jon, very funny to contemplate-- the day there were so many clones working the whole day's threads got disappeared! What you shared is very interesting-- a high degree of thought goes into what the volunteers do, I see-- not just wham bam thank you ma'am. Not a surprise-- just lovely to see the attention to detail, and appreciated. Is there a shanty yet for JoeClones? I did a parody on Send in the Clowns but I think a shanty might be more apt. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Jon Freeman Date: 18 Mar 01 - 11:37 AM Susan, Joe Offer send me a set of hints when I started doing the JoeClone bit. I just follow the system he gave me and I guess devised - it works well. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Matt_R Date: 18 Mar 01 - 11:38 AM Bradford Pears bloomed about a month ago...Hyacynth, Candytuft, and Daffodils been bloomed for about 3 weeks now. The tulips are just starting to open... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Date: 18 Mar 01 - 11:58 AM Just a passing thought for a Joe Clone shanty. How about working on "Haul-away, Jo?" Gotta run! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Bert Date: 19 Mar 01 - 12:29 AM Saw my first YARD SALE sign this weekend. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Shall Date: 19 Mar 01 - 09:40 PM The spring peepers started singing Friday night.I was so excited. My husband thinks I am nuts, getting a thrill from the music of the night. Maybe I am... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: CamiSu Date: 19 Mar 01 - 09:58 PM No you're not, Shall. I love it when the peepers are so loud you can't shut them out. (But I don't have any near my house, so I have to go find them)
Birdfoot's Grampa
The old man
The rain was falling,
But, leathery hands full Heard Joe tell this years ago, and I cannot think of the peepers without thinking of this, as well. CamiSu
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Noreen Date: 19 Mar 01 - 10:10 PM Lovely, CamiSu. (What are peepers?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: CarolC Date: 19 Mar 01 - 10:13 PM Peepers! Shall, I can't be more than ten miles north of you. I haven't heard any yet. Could you tell some of yours to head over my way? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: CarolC Date: 19 Mar 01 - 10:16 PM Noreen, spring peepers are a kind of frog that call loudly but beautifully in the springtime in some parts of the U.S. (I don't know if they have them in Canada or not.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Cap't Bob Date: 19 Mar 01 - 10:37 PM The first sign of spring here in northern Michigan is the calendar which says tomorrow is the first day of spring. Most likely the spring peepers around our place are still under about two feet of snow. The second sign of spring is the wood pile. We have now burned around sixteen face cord which usually indicates a long cold winter.
The cold north wind is blowing strong, Cap't Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: roopoo Date: 20 Mar 01 - 02:32 AM Yep, the vernal equinox is upon us, and what does the good ol' British weather have for the next few days? Gales and heavy, possibly drifting snow in the south, gradually heading north. They gave out -7C in the Bristol area when the wind chill was taken into consideration. This is going to be more or less in my area tomorrow, I think. Hopefully it will at least have blown itself out. We are very low here, so we don't get the same amount of snow as they do 20 miles west of us, where it's higher up and hilly. Those who don't get snow are still going to get sub-zero temperatures at night. We had better get a decent summer this year. And there I was, thinking that if it kept fine and dry this week I might take the first cut off my little patch of lawn, as it's looking more and more lumpy and bumpy. Hopefully if some of the snails have woken up the bad weather might kill them. Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Mrs.Duck Date: 20 Mar 01 - 09:54 AM First day of Spring tomorrow so of course it will snow!!!And since it is here hadn't we better start arranging the Yorkshire gathering! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: SINSULL Date: 20 Mar 01 - 12:35 PM Snow drops have been in bloom for two weeks. Saw my first crocus today. Evergreen camelia is ready to pop. Lilca has buds. And cats are running like maniacs in, out, up, and down. Spring is here. Amos, Big sloppy sappy hug coming your way. Duck! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: mousethief Date: 20 Mar 01 - 04:10 PM All the cherry trees are in full bloom. Woke to birdsong sometime in the past week, which I hadn't heard in ever-so-long. We've had crocuses (croci?) for at least 2 weeks now. Daffodils and their cousins are in bloom. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 20 Mar 01 - 04:30 PM CamiSu, that was great! I remember a few years ago getting a ride home from a contra dance with two ardent naturalists. It was April, and they took the back roads, and stopped to rescue every single peeper between Peterborough and Keene! I had had a glass of wine at dinner, which meant that I had been made extra dizzy from all the swinging at the dance, and every time the car stopped I thought I was going to disgrace myself and make my friends regret their kind offer of a ride! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 Mar 01 - 04:34 PM Driving round Oxfordshire yesterday, saw lots of blossom, particularly blackthorn, daffodils and celandines, daisies and polyanthus. Lots of pussy willow and catkins, but couldn't stop for any.... I've had no fewer than 5 different flowers blooming in my garden since December, snowdrops, periwinkle, violets, daffodils, rosemary, a very stupid rose and the hebe. Hopefully the blue clematis will be making an appearance soon, and the bluebells are already making a big impression to the bare patch. Whether the cowslip comes up or not, remains to be seen. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: SINSULL Date: 20 Mar 01 - 04:44 PM No snap dragons, Liz? My sister-in-law has a blue/violet clematis that climbs a trellis in front of her home. The flowers are 5 - 8" across - a spectacular June display. And every year a sparrow makes her nest in it. From atop a chair you can see the babies all snuggled in the nest. By the time they are ready to fly, they are as big as their mother. Really funny to see these "babies" begging for food and jostling for position. Even funnier to see the frustrated tomcat sitting in the chair glaring at lunch just out of reach. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Shall Date: 20 Mar 01 - 04:53 PM Carol, I have the wetlands below my house, come over and give a listen. I am heading to the Meck tonight!I am celebrating...31 years ago I was in labor with my first son. Spring was busting out all over on March 20, 1970. Talk about a spring rush! Camisu-Thanks for the bit of poetry. Nothing better than words and peeper music! Cap't Bob-How far up north are you in Michigan.Are you an Upper? My Mother is giving me the guilt treatment, I haven't been home (southern Michigan) over a year. My excuse is always that it is too cold, too grey and too far from God's country. A weather report would be nice. I have friends up in Gaylord I'd like to see when I go home. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: gnu Date: 20 Mar 01 - 04:59 PM Yup, definitely the first day of spring here in New Brunswick. Had to shovel snow from my lawn onto my daffydils near the foundation on the south face of my house. The crazy buggers are up three inches and will keep coming if I don't thwart their efforts with snow. Nothing worse than watching them bloom and then keel over from frost or snow the very next day. gnu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Midchuck Date: 20 Mar 01 - 04:59 PM ...And a winter's thirst to drown. A winter still with two months left to go... (Stan Rogers, Canol Road) Bah to all of you from white Vermont. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: CarolC Date: 20 Mar 01 - 05:04 PM Midchuck, I know what you mean. I heard that up your way you've got nine months of winter and three months of damn poor skiing. (*g*) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: gnu Date: 20 Mar 01 - 05:46 PM Gosh. I was worried about my daffydils. Should have been more concerned about the door knockers ! Wish I could drive some snow on THEM. In the past hour, I have been summoned to the front door three times and asked to give money to save my lungs, kidneys and some missing children. Spring has sprung ! gnu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Jeri Date: 20 Mar 01 - 05:51 PM Well, like I said - if there are snowdrops, they're buried. This is all your fault for putting these thoughts in my head, but a little while ago I was outside, standing in snow that still came above my knees, attempting to shovel off the lawn where I planted the snowdrops. I hit ice, realized it was a stupid idea and gave up. Why do you people make me do these things? On the other hand, I made it to the back of the house, where the snow had melted a bit more. I have new shoots coming out of something I planted on purpose. (There are weeds poking their gentle green damned invasive heads out of the soil as well.) In a short while, I may let my ladybug/ladybird pets outside to play. They've kept me company all winter, but they deserve their freedom. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: harpmolly Date: 20 Mar 01 - 05:56 PM We've got cherry blossoms too, Alex...my whole street has erupted. And the weeping willows are slowly tingeing green. Siiiiiiiiigh... "Winter's on the wing, come a fine spring morn..." Moll |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Jande Date: 20 Mar 01 - 06:15 PM Carol, signs of Spring. Well, I always think the first sign of Spring is the intense longing one gets for it about this time of year. Then there's the flock of Robins we almost ran over with Beep the Jeep yesterday as they flew right down across our path, about twenty of them! Snow sculptures melt down one side and stay frozen on the other. Up here in the hills, the Canada Geese are Vee-ing their way north in intidy masses, honking hello to their country-mate below as they pass. Went out to get the mail without a coat two days in a row. Still two feet of snow covering the long looped driveway. We've been parking the Beeper right at the end of it closest to the road. So *that's* why we haven't been descended upon by the Religious and the Profane Salespeople alike. I'll be a bit sorry when that melts, now!
I printed out the Peeper story. Love that! And yes, we do have them in Canada.
~ Jande |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Matt_R Date: 20 Mar 01 - 06:21 PM Cherry tree blossoms EVERYWHERE here at ECU! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Cap't Bob Date: 20 Mar 01 - 07:02 PM Shall ~ We live in Mio ~ about thirty miles south of Gaylord and thirty miles ease of Grayling. The snow in the open fields have stubble showing through and we should be able to see the ground in those areas in a week or so. We live back in the woods where the trees tend to block out the sun light and this seems to slow down the melting process considerably. The weather forecasters say we are in for some more flurries by the end of the weak. I have some friends in southern Michigan that I talk with via amateur radio on a regular basis and they say the snow is gone in that part of the state. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Signs of spring From: Mrs.Duck Date: 21 Mar 01 - 12:38 PM NOW it is the first day of spring 21st!!And of course it's snowing! |