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March NEWSLETTER 2008 |
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What's inside: Spring is Coming......................P1 Friggit & the Rainbow Bridge.P2 Recipe: Nature's
Garden........P3 Poems & Quotations.....P1 & P2 ***************************** Poems & Quotations First a howling
blizzard woke us, I love spring
anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
~Ruth Stout The March wind
roars ~~~ When winds are soft, ~~~ The air is
like a butterfly ~~~ Springtime is
the land awakening. ~~~
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The first day of
spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference
between them is sometimes as great as a month. It's hard to believe when I look out the window and see more snow that winter is almost over and my favorite time of the year is almost here. Thank goodness! It has been an exceptionally long season for me. The chipmunks seem to know when the weather is going to turn bad and head for their burrows early. Last year they took for cover the first week in November. That's, on an average, six to seven weeks earlier than previous years. Of course, they were right. We had one of the worst Decembers in years. It reminded me of when I was a kid and that is way to many years ago to remember. Spring starts for me when I see my first chipmunk, usually by the second or third week in February. This year it was February 29th, and to my surprise, it was Ivana the Terrible who I will have to rename Ivan.
The males are always the first to come out of their dens. Then it's off to find the girls. Once they find a females den, they'll hang around until the females are ready to come out. The females, on the other hand, will emerge for one day out of their three day cycle, usually between the middle to the end of March. It's a very short window of opportunity. This year, little Miss Ears came out to greet me on March 1st. My guess is she was low on food.
As always, it is great to see my little friends. Ivan is off in the woods somewhere so Ears feels pretty safe coming out. She's eaten all the cranberries I put out for her and taken her stash of seeds back to her den. She'll be staying pretty close to home for the next couple of weeks, but at least we got to spend some time together until she comes out for the season. I've had my chippy fix for now. At last, winter is over. *********************** The sun is brilliant in
the sky but its warmth does not reach my face. |
The yard in December '07
Don't know who made these tracks, but it was no chipmunk. ***********************
Chippy Friend Mug
********************** Featured site: The Butterfly Project The Holocaust Museum in Houston, TX is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies to be exhibited as a remembrance of the Jewish children who perished in Nazi Germany. 400,000 butterflies have been collected as of 8/12/08. They will be put on display in 2012.
************************ Botanists say that
trees need the powerful March winds to flex ~~~ Each leaf, Even weeds
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~~~ No winter lasts
forever; no spring skips it's turn.
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