Wow, has it almost been 2 weeks since my last post?? The year of 2008 is already flying by way too fast....I just can't quite keep up.
To share with you all of the details as to why I've been absent would certainly bore you to tears so I'll skip the excuses part. However, I will share a few of the more interesting things that have gone on here in the Prairie of Dardenne.
My last post was about our odd weather. I had no idea when I wrote that post that our odd weather would hang around for awhile.
As forecasted on January 29th, 2008, out temps did drop to a very cold 15 degrees. However, that didn't prevent this little guy from sitting atop the tree in my front yard the next morning...in fact, despite the cold and the dreary skies, I thought to myself, "maybe an early spring is on it's way."
However, the next morning, Old Man Winter crushed any hope that I had for an early spring. He managed to drop about 10 inches of snow in my yard.
The next thing I know...the snow is melting quickly due to our temps rising into the mid-40's low-50's. In fact a few days after our snowfall, I was driving home from an appointment only to run into a horrible thunderstorm that produced tons of lightening and very loud thunder. The skies were green and it ended up dumping the most pea-sized hail I've ever seen fall at one time.
Of course, this was just the result of a warm front colliding with a cold front.
SURPRISE!! The cold front won it's battle with the warm front and now our temperatures are right where they should be for this time of year.....a brisk 30 degrees or so.
This morning when I walked outside into the cold air; I recognized something and it renewed my hope for an early spring.....take a look at who came back
for a visit....
So now what I need to know is if this bird is a purple finch or a house finch...anyone want to answer that for me??
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