Spring - Page 2

MargaretR · 16-03-2010, 23:32

The trees around my place show no signs of spring yet

Benipete · 16-03-2010, 23:50

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

The trees around my place show no signs of spring yet

As every knows - The first day of Spring is 20/3/ 10. just in time to wake Paddy up after the 17th.

Eric · 17-03-2010, 00:15

8c this afternoon .... bbq weather; most of my neighbours were out burning meat on the grill .... general concensus was "nice day, eh" ...

Ken Moss · 17-03-2010, 10:32

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

depends yerself .. if they start singing at 4am like they did this morning .. then they may just not be around again to see the sun coming up ..

The little sods were at it at 11pm last night in Rishton but it serves me right for feeding them all every day.

We've just started the gardening round in earnest and I think we're due a collossal ladybird infestation this year as we've noticed them as early as January.

That's very good news for the birds though, plenty of extra food!

Barrie Yates · 17-03-2010, 16:46

17 deg today, Acacia in full bloom as is the Camelia (expected), bulbs flowering, hazel catkins, new shoots evrywhere and of course the weeds are trying to get a head start on everything else. Left the uoutside light on late last nigh - when i went to turn it off at about 2230 there were birds at the feeders and a mouse scavenging under the feeders. - Spring is here for me.

Eric · 17-03-2010, 18:55

About 8c today, with lots of sunshine ... more flights of geese heading north ... a couple of dozen squirrels in my yard .... and the coons out in force at night ... snowdrops out, tulips pushing up .... and if it were not for the snow in the long range forecast, I would say spring is here.

MargaretR · 17-03-2010, 19:20

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Originally Posted by Eric

About 8c today, with lots of sunshine ... more flights of geese heading north ... a couple of dozen squirrels in my yard .... and the coons out in force at night ... snowdrops out, tulips pushing up .... and if it were not for the snow in the long range forecast, I would say spring is here.

Our UK winter seems to have been as long and almost as cold/snowy as yours this time, but maybe we have suffered more hardship because our municiple services didn't cope like yours.

Eric · 18-03-2010, 19:28

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

Our UK winter seems to have been as long and almost as cold/snowy as yours this time, but maybe we have suffered more hardship because our municiple services didn't cope like yours.

In general, Canada seems to have had one of the warmest, shortest winters on record ... and there are lots of negatives on this one ... heard on the news yesterday that the govt. of Manitoba has closed the winter roads heading to their northern communties ... this is about a month earlier than usual. The muskeg is thawing ... trucks are stranded in the mud ... truckers are being airlifted out from their abandoned vehicles, and northern communities (all First Nations) are running short of supplies ... those living in the Red River valley are bracing for the floods both in southern Manitoba and in North Dakota ...

But I do agree that we are better prepared for winter weather than most.

Eric · 18-03-2010, 19:30

Ooops ... "muskeg" ... well anyone interested has Google ... of course, for those among you who speak Algonquian, it shouldn't be a problem