“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
Usually Gracie is having her morning nap around this time but not today. The weather is beautiful, bright and warm. Gracie has been running in the yard almost since we both woke up. She comes in to look out the front door then goes back outside. She is one smart dog who knows to take advantage of a good thing when she sees it. Like Gracie, it is a day for me to be out somewhere, and I don’t think it matters where. I’ll lower the window and breathe in all the fresh air I can. I want to smell spring in the air.
Last night we had a spectacular rainstorm with thunder and lightning. I was in bed reading when it started. I loved it. Gracie, however, didn’t stir, didn’t even notice. Storms mean nothing to her.
The deck is now almost totally cleared of snow as is the backyard. Plow piles are still on corners but they are smaller and look the worse for the rain and the dirt from the road. I always wonder why the plows put those piles on the corners when right beside the corners might work just as well. If they do it so we can’t see oncoming cars, they succeed masterfully.
Today is bike riding weather. I would maneuver mine out of the cellar, up the steep stairs, ride down the sacred grass hill and take off down the street. Maybe I’d be lucky and have a dime in my pocket, plenty of money for a couple of candy bars or lots of penny candy. I’d wear a jacket instead of a winter coat and hope not to be noticed by my mother who would demand a warmer coat, hat and mittens. One warm day does not spring make according to the Mother’s Creed to which they all adhered. I would have headed toward the field close to my house to check out the horses or to the farm at the other end of town to see the dairy cows. My town also had a barn behind the town hall where horses were kept. It had and still has a zoo. Next to the zoo was a barn filled with stalls and MDC police horses. I’d ride most of the day. There was so much to see. Finally I’d get hungry and cold and ready to go home. The bike went back into the cellar until the next warm day when I could resume my world travels.
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February 22, 2014 at 11:52 am
We do have small piles of snow left too but mostly covered with pine needels and gravel that they are hard to see.
I would ride my bike to the big park nearby, up the hill where they had an observatory and a pond filled with frogs and salamanders and I would probaly try tocatch some too. There is a zoo (we call them animal parks and a zoo for us is a pet store 🙂 ) but they didn’t like people biking there. The animals in the zoo were and still is the wild ones we can find in this country and some farm animals too. Back then we were allowed to feed the animals but they became so fat that they forbade it.
We’re having yet another storm here with some rain and some sunshine during the day. Rather warm but the wind makes it a bist b´nasty to stay outdoors for too long.
Have a great day!
Christer.
February 22, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Christer,
The piles do get ugly quickly.
There are fields for grazing horses from the boarding barn, but there is nothing much left here. You see far more wildlife in one walk than I do in months. There is a small pond at the end of the street, and I do hear the frogs in summer.
It is a day to be outside here. You have had such a wonderful winter it is about time we have a nice day.
Enjoy your day!!
February 22, 2014 at 12:13 pm
Every warm day in February should be considered a gift of relief from this miserable winter. I just read on the internet that this January was the warmest on record despite the cold outbreaks in the mid west and north east. One theory is that the polar jet stream developed more aggressive dips southward as a result of the warming of the polar ice cap. The jet stream is not only the boundary between the arctic cold and the more temperate weather to the South but it also steers the storms around the globe. The added cold along with more storms driven along a more southern route brought a lot more moisture in the form of snow this winter to the Midwest, mid south and northeastern portions of North America and torrential rains to the British isles.
We are just beginning to feel the effects of climate change in the form of weird weather regardless what is causing the warming. Those on the right don’t want to believe that human activity is causing this problem because too many of their supporters have a vested economic interest in denying that human activities are at the heart of the problem. Put head in sand and pass the problem on to future generations.
February 22, 2014 at 12:27 pm
Bob,
I agree about the gift of warm weather. This may have been a warm winter but it is one of the snowiest here in several decades. This month most days were colder than average. I found it amazing how much snow the South got this year.
I don’t get how people can still deny the climate change. This is the year when it has been most easily seen with the weird storms and snow in the usually warmer areas. The weather is changing and it is time for the world to move and do what it can to preserve the Earth.
February 22, 2014 at 1:34 pm
I should have been more specific, warmest January globally.
When you are running for public office you need campaign contributions and then votes. The Deep South and the west represent large very conservative and religious voters who don’t believe that we humans can affect God’s creation. They also are pushing to teach creationism in science classes to offset the teaching of evolution. Big Republican donors such as the Koch brothers would have to spend billions to clean up their factory emissions if EPA clean air regulations were enforced, so it always comes down to dollars. It’s the golden rule: he who has the gold rules.
February 22, 2014 at 1:50 pm
Bob,
I knew what you meant. Look at all the crazy weather world-wide. Parts of England are underwater. Places in Japan had their first snow in a hundred years.
It boggles my mind that creationism is still taught and is now in several textbooks.
February 22, 2014 at 12:28 pm
Glad All Over – wonderful
February 22, 2014 at 12:43 pm
My Dear Hedley,
Yes we are!!
February 22, 2014 at 12:49 pm
Did you see it ?
February 22, 2014 at 1:08 pm
MDH,
I though you were just being philosophical. No, I didn’t see it.
February 22, 2014 at 1:45 pm
I forgot!
February 22, 2014 at 1:02 pm
It’s easy to use the bike if you don’t have a car 😉
I don’t really miss my car. Usually a bike and public transport is sufficient where I live.
Tonight we bike to the nearby cultural center where a local Jazz group plays Latin American music. Nothing special, just fun, nice people and a beer or two.
I always think it’s very American when you write you go outside for fun and that means driving somewhere. We are probably very old-fashioned when we just go out and walk, but it’s also a matter of infrastructure, most of our streets still have sidewalks.
February 22, 2014 at 1:12 pm
Birgit,
We have wonderful bike trails up and down the Cape. I used to ride all the way to PTown from Dennis. It took me all day up and back. I haven’t ridden for a long while.
We now have one bus route for the whole Cape. That was a long time coming. It even has bike racks. Down here, without a car you are in trouble. The cape never did have sidewalks though now that is one of the uses for the bike trail. Walking can be dangerous here if you happen to walk where there isn’t the trail.
In the summer, bikes are all over the place.
February 22, 2014 at 6:06 pm
For future reference:
Cheers
February 22, 2014 at 6:14 pm
MInicept,
This was so funny and right on target, speaking as a television watcher!