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[smlobx]

Vic that’s hilarious!

[ski3pin]

30°F this morning and snowing.................................................we love Spring!

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Thanks Vic.Nice.

Frank

[pvstoy]

Spring... Saw my first squirrel that's out of hibernation.  

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[ski3pin]

We heard the first Stellar Jays on our early morning walk - micro spikes required - today.

[pvstoy]

I feel this...

Great video Vic! Gal and I watched this and it reminded us year ago February at Saskatoon with near record cold temperatures. We were wishing it would warm to +1 during the week as we were outside photographing snowy owls. At -40 two Nikon cameras refused to work, our Canons worked but slowly.

[Vic Harder]

- 40 is a tad chilly.   We are looking at above freezing forcasts for the first time in many weeks.  I can hardly wait! 

[MarkBC]

The switch to daylight saving time is part of spring -- like it or not.

 

An article from the NY Times a couple years ago about "why DST" had a bit that I hadn't heard before -- it's great!   Excerpt below (my emphasis)

 

Energy Savings

The idea was originally rooted in saving candle wax, not electricity.

 

Historians have traced the notion back to Benjamin Franklin, who realized he was sleeping through some daylight hours while visiting Paris in the 18th century. He suggested French officials shoot cannons at sunrise to jolt people out of bed, optimizing the amount of hours they spent awake when it’s light out. That way, they could cut down on using candles to light their homes while awake, Mr. Prerau said.

 

By Daniel Victor, New York Times, March 11, 2016

 

Ben Franklin had some great ideas and inventions.  Not sure if this was one of them... 

 

I've experienced something like this Franklin suggestion.  A couple of years ago I was visiting a friend on the 29 Palms USMC base ("MCAGCC") -- retired military, he had his RV parked there for a while. A few mornings I woke to the sound of artillery -- in the distance.  That sound wasn't the cause of me waking up -- so not exactly Franklinesque, but it would have done the job if I'd been a couple miles closer to the guns.  They do sound reveille over loudspeakers on the Base...so similar.

[MarkBC]

Meteorologists say we're 10 days into spring, and they should know...but local deer aren't convinced.

 

  

"Hey, got any food in there?  It's a little lean out here."

 

Several deer were rummaging in the snow for seed dropped from the bird feeders.

 

(Note the step ladder, used when clearing -- raking -- snow from the roof to reduce ice dams and leakage)

[Smokecreek1]

OMG-for the first time since whenever the weather forecast does not show the possibility of snow (except for today that is) for  the whole next week ! Could this mean Spring weather could be  around the corner??????? The sun just popped out from a crack in the clouds better go walk the dog fast before the snow starts again! SPRING!!!!

 

Smoke

Edited by Smokecreek1, 12 March 2019 - 04:21 PM.