...here in NC anyway. Sir Walter Wally did not see his shadow at the NC Natural History Museum's festival on February 2nd, thank goodness. He actually has a better record of accuracy in his predictions than the world-famous rodent in Pennsylvania. After this winter, we were actually looking forward to what he had to say this year.
Here we are not two weeks later with sixties ( maybe even seventy later in the week) in the forecast every day, and lows moving out of the thirties and into the forties by mid-week. I toddled out to the car shed with my flashlight last night after supper, to find a piece of paper. I was not uncomfortable in my tee shirt, thin knit yoga pants and slippers, even though it was dusky-dark and cooling off for the evening.
This morning, the sunlight has a nice brightness to it, and Mike tells me I will not need to bundle up anymore in the foreseeable forecast. The thought of only having to wear one layer under my sweatshirt is wonderful...no more tights and windshirts. Clogs instead of boots...won't be long until flipflop weather!
The maples started budding red last week, and the hayfields are starting to green up already. I think I will wait a couple of days, and then look at the flower beds, to see how tall the daffodils are getting.
Need to get busy with the leaf rake, too, and clear out the beds that filled up late last fall with leaves that blew up to the house and stayed the winter there...too busy then to do much yardwork. Want to wash some windows soon, too.
What's the first "spring" chore you are planning to do this year?
