Spring 2020 is here

SPRING IS HERE!

Daylight Savings time today 3/8/2020 Spring Ahead!

The birds are gathering, the sparrows are fighting, the Red Winged Blackbirds have arrived.  Rosie heard the Woodcock twitter as they flew by, and last night 3/7 the classic "Reeep" calls out in the field, we look forward to hearing them this early in the year. While we haven't seen it yet this dance is pretty funny you have to admit. We've been seeing ducks flying all winter long, I don't think the larger rivers ever froze over completely.

The fields are clear, everything is a dull brown, we noticed a couple bird houses that blew down over the winter we'll have to patch up and rehang. There are some daffodils poking through the mulch up along the house foundation about 3" or so, the crocuses are just popping out of the ground.  We're hoping the dogs don't get to them before they can flower.  

It's officially Mud season here in NH, the dogs track it everywhere. We have a dirt (Mud) racetrack around the house mostly from Hanna zooming around, she's a champion zoom-er, with Zeb following closely behind. It's funny she looks downright petite compared to Zeb who's growing rapidly. Zebulon busies himself by pulling entire rose bushes out of the ground then proudly strutting around the yard with his catch!  

Zebulon "Zeb"

Zebulon with Hannah behind him

There's a few patches of snow left in the fields. Our pussy willows are out, this year's buds have a pink hue to them we never noticed before. Rose and I gathered a bunch for the house.

We have a bunch of things to do today, seemingly endless things to do...
Pulling the boat out, changing the house water filter, cutting some boards for the camper bunk beds, we may pick up a straw bale to help with the mud pit of a lawn.  

Rose has been sewing up a storm making curtains and cushion covers for the couch and beds.  Her sewing machine crapped out, that's the 3rd Singer that's gone belly up over the years, we've picked up a Elna machine, Swiss design, a brand recommended by a local shop Levesque's Sewing Machine & Vacuum in Hooksett, NH. We found out Dennis the owner is actually a neighbor that lives just up the street from us in Weare, NH. 

Watching the Corona Virus totals go up daily, impacts to manufacturing could be epic, time will tell, the Johns Hopkins Corona-virus Map is starting to look bad for the US with 436 cases now.