Regular readers know that I like seasonal weather to be seasonal. In other words, I like dark, gloomy, rainy weather in the winter, but when it’s time for spring I want to see spring weather; one drawback of living on the Olympic Peninsula is that winter weather often holds on here well into April, which offends my conception of an orderly world. But this weekend we finally started getting the first signs of warmer, drier weather, and the weather forecast predicts much more of the same in the coming weeks; as things stand now, I’ll probably take off the shutters a week from today or thereabouts. The animals are pretty happy about the weather change, too; Shiloh and Jonathan are starting to graze on the fresh shoots of grass, and though Louie has been sunning himself for a couple of weeks now, Cicero has arthritis in his right foreleg and I think the ground has been a bit too cold for him before now. But here he is on Sunday, enjoying the afternoon sun in the north pasture. So while we’ve already seen spring flowers and the Canada geese have been passing overhead for a week or so, at Sunset a sunbathing Cicero is our truest sign that spring has indeed sprung.
Archive for April 9th, 2024
Diary #719
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