Is Spring coming early this year?

Saw dandelions bloomed in my yard today

I saw a 3' water snake at work Friday. I got a quick picture as it went back into the rocks. I've been seeing red tail hawks all winter at work.

Working in the yard yesterday, heard/saw a flock of sandhill cranes going north. Normally never see them until early March.

That's ok ms660...if I'd have seen a guy mowing his lawn in January...I would have gone to the eye doctor, too!! biggrin2

Wearing shorts has nothing to do with spring. I wear shorts year round. I keep the important stuff warm

Frogs out in the pond, singing last night, dandelions blooming in the yard.....probably be twenty below come March

I saw an ant climbing up the side of my house, cardinals flying around trees budding, frogs croaking and flowers blooming, dogs and cat living together and fewer deer harvested; it's global warming.

Mowing the grass?

I'll be running my mower over the front yard in the next couple days..

Picking up leaves...My neighbor has a pin oak and it is still dropping leaves..

If there is one thing you can count on with the weather in Indiana, it's up and down weather patterns.

Where I live, we can apparently count on not only that, but an overabundance of rainfall (if what has happened the last three years continues).

Last year, we had 90 days of rain (and that was with a drought in October and November). Over the last three years (in my little corner of the southern portion of the state), we've had an additional 40" of rain. At an "average" of 45" of rain per year, that means we've had almost the equivalent of 4 years of rain over the last 3 years.

And this year has started out wet again as we have had 12 days of rain that have resulted in my area being an 1.5" above "normal" for January rainfall with 8 days remaining in the month.