Peeps!
I got home from a trip to Madison this afternoon and when I stepped out of the car, I was greeted with the decidedly cheerful trilling of spring peepers. By golly, this thaw might just be for real! The calendar assures us that the first day of spring is indeed this Saturday, March 20, but I don’t believe it around here until I hear it.
A quick look back at the Farm Almanac blog reveals that they didn’t show up last year until the week after the 20th, and in 2008 they waited til the first week in April. I guess in some places a groundhog’s shadow might be a good indicator of winter’s end, but my money here is on the peepers.
