It's ALMOST Spring!!

... it is a beautiful, bright, sunny day... from inside a toasty warm furnace blaring home one might think it was time to throw on our shorts and put a little color back into our white pasty skin... that is until one opens the door and the cold air rushes at them... Obviously 24 degrees is not the coldest that we have been this winter... but in a nutshell... it isn't spring yet.

However... somehow in Northern Utah we all like to believe that spring is here before it actually is... me included of course. In the past week I have been making observation about our oddities. Bare in mind that ONE day this week we hit 49 degrees. The next highest day we were at 38 degrees. So not BALMY by many peoples standards... yet...

- School age children stand at the bus freezing in their SHORTS! And then try hard to convince you that they aren't cold. (As their jaw chatters...) And coats are left home since it might be HOT after school! ????? (we have rules about that in our house... apparently other people don't choose that as a battle to pick...)

- I saw someone driving with their windows rolled down???

- Motorcycles are out and about.

- People are wearing flip flops...

-Tayler's cute friend who we carpool to dance with, got in the van and was snuffy and sneezing... (you know the basic cold) and she said. "Oh, man my allergies are acting up." I said, "that's too bad, what are you allergic to?" She answered, "Moss and Grass". Moss and Grass???? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't think the grass pollen is very strong right now... since it is COVERED in SNOW!

-Speaking of grass covered in snow... Shane saw our neighbor sprinkling ash on his snow to get it to melt... hehehe

-This morning after aerobics I walked out with my excercise friends to get the paper and said, "Hey it's not so bad out here, we could almost walk it's so nice." I checked the temp when I got back in... 13 degrees... Gauranteed I wouldn't have said that in January... somehow it just seemed warmer with the sun shining!

But then there are signs that spring is just around the corner... since...

- I see and hear birds chirping. (If I was a bird... I wouldn't fly north until April... or possibly May... but that's just me!)

- I saw tiny little green crocus and daffadil sprouts poking out of the soil when I went to Parent Teacher Conf. at Kenna's school!

- I have flys in my house. You know the slow, dazed, just waking up kind... that even I could catch with chop sticks!

- I feel like cleaning out things... I must act on those feelings quickly because they never last long!!

- And the final hint that spring is almost here is that tomorrow I will be taking all of my winter snowmen and "let it snow" stuff down to make room for all my "Spring" decorations!! Because Sunday is March 1st and I'm calling that spring... even if it really isn't... I just might put on my short sleeve shirt, dig out my flip flops, and drive to church with my window rolled down shouting "YIPPEE, it's ALMOST Spring!!"