Springtime in VT

This year should be marked in the books of history as the one in which Vermonters had a spring. Usually spring here consists of waiting for mounds of snow to melt and laying down boards to walk past mud in the dooryard. 

But this year we have had warm weather, sunshine, early flowers and lots of greenery. We are probably about a month ahead of where we usually are in gardening.

 The funny thing is that is the middle of all of it, parts of Vermont can get 16 inches of snow. Then it's back to stoking up the wood furnace or twirling the dial for the propane.

 Yesterday I hung out three loads of laundry, mowed the entire the yard, weeded two large flower beds, sipped soda on the deck, and watched the grandkids chase each other with sprinklers. 

 Today, it's dropped to 50, the rain is nonstop, and I'm pulling out an insulated vest so that I don't have to turn up the heat. 

You gotta love it or you gotta move. I think I'll stay.