Somebodys knockin at my door

You can tell its gettin close to spring. I happen to live on a lake, and I have befriended a flock of ducks, ok to be exact, about 100 of them on any given day. This includes a tame Trumpeter Swan named Romeo, who I hand feed and visit with daily, a couple of Pekins named Wiggles and Quack, and hybrid named Bleach, and several mallards and assorted ducks that, to be honest, im not even quite sure what kind of duck they are... just that they seem to be fond of me. Ok, so I feed them 50 pounds of kibble, bread, biskits, corn and an occasional potatoe chip here and there each week.... funny how we come to find these creatures of nature as friends.... In spring, when the hens have babies and shy away from people, they march them up to my back door and parade them for me to see.... with no fear. The photo is of Romeo, who, knocked on my patio door today to say hello.

Blizzard of 2008

Wow...here is is about a week and a half from Spring, and wouldn't you know it, winter strikes. It was 70 degrees 4 days prior, and then 15 - 20 inches of snow arrived with 4 foot drifts! Global Warming , or Mother Natures last laff? I have a huge drif out behind my house, and everytime I look outside I just want to go jump in, like I would when I was a kid... I wont however, because im sure the moment that I did, somebody would snap my photo and I would never live it down...or I would end up with pnumonia. All in all, it will be 50 by tuesday and then we will have to worry about flooding. This wasn't exactly the same as the Blizzard of 78, where we were out of school 10 days in a row, and they had to move in equipment by helicopter, but it was unique and rare, and now.... I am ready for spring.