Harbinger of Spring . . .

Yep, saw a pair of cock Robins yesterday. They were kinda just standing there. They usually chase around looking for bugs and worms, but this pair were just standing there as if to say, "Look at me." Its gotta to be a good omen.

We had yet another violent storm charge through last night. Started up about 9:00 PM (that's 2100 hours for you military types) and it looked pretty violent to me. I watched a lawn chair go flying off the patio across the yard. Albeit, the chair is pretty light and has low wind resistance, it just up and took off. Learned this AM that over towards Keller several roofs were torn off. The Weather people are debating whether there was a tornado, well duh, they predicted tornadoes, so?????

Another sure sign of spring are the first Daffodils are blooming. I have them planted all over the yard. And the damn deer tend to eat them, they are kind of hard up this time of year for anything green. But these Daffodils seemed to escape to much damage and are now putting out flowers. The rain is causing them to spring up.

The deer have attacked the Day Lilies too. They are trying to sprout up and the deer enjoy the tender new shoots. They mow down everything worth keeping. They ate all the pansy's in the neighborhood. That is winter feed to them. Our new neighbors across the street are not to wise as to the animals and planted a large bed of pansy's only to find them well trimmed down the next day.

We used to feed deer, then they decided that they could eat anything in the yard. There goes the Wandering Jew - purple salad. We have a red tip in the back, and it is struggling to grow. Every year in spring it puts out new leaves and along comes the deer and chows down.

There are about 20 deer in the area. Our subdivision backs up to 200 acre wilderness. The owners purposely keep it that way and so it is a refuge for the deer. They rampage throughout the area. Fences do not matter, I watched a doe clear a six foot fence with plenty to spare.

Any rate it appears that spring is upon us. A few more cold snaps and old man winter is gone. Soon we will be complaining about the summer heat. Ugh.