I got some new rubber booties this year and have worn them twice already. My gosh, the weatherman is calling for +17 and sunshine tomorrow, and +16 on Saturday - that's really gonna do a trick on the rest of this snow.

It's been beautiful here too! The snow is clearing up nicely and not too much standing water because last summer was so dry. Only slightly less exciting because it melted repeatedly all winter... I'm not complaining.

It was 18 here today and supposed to get warmer over the next few days. Incredible! I have tulips coming up in one spot. I'm kind of excited about it, but then i'm a little apprehensive about future cool-downs. Are things going to get confused? Or worse, killed in a later return to normal?

Dh is worried because of the lack of standing water. If we don't get a lot of rain, this could turn into a bad fire season.

Environment Canada's long range forecast is for above normal temperature's and above normal precipitation for this area, and i'm going to choose to believe that! Bring it on!

The only thing I have showing life in the garden right now is the deer...ggggrrrr. I went out last night at midnight to put wood in the green house stove and spooked a couple of them while they were eating seeds under the bird feeders.

Savona, the deer population in my area seems to have really dropped off the last couple of years, a friend living nearby has also commented as such. The very deep snows of 2011 and the frequently hard crusted top layer makes for a difficult go of it for these creatures and many times I've seen blood in the snow due to their legs being cut.

Still lots of snow in my backyard and doesn't appear much will be melting away this coming week with the cool temps forecast :(