I think we can all agree that it's been one heck of a winter [and for those Down Under, one heck of a summer].

We heat with a wood pellet stove.  It's a great gadget. Pour in forty lbs. of pellets and fire it up. It is our primary source of heat. This year we bought our usual 3 tons of pellets late last summer to keep us nice and toasty thru the Winter. Occasionally we end up buying a couple of extra bags in Spring. This year we needed a lot more than that.  And there weren't any __ anywhere.  Well, there might have been some in Pennsylvania but that's a few states north of here.  What I think I'm trying to say is that it was a cold
winter.  [I needed to tell you that, right?].

Today I went into town to take care of some errands and I noticed the daffodils are up and budding. Yay!!!  Oh, not up here but down in town everything is starting to get Springy and plump. How wonderful.

I just thought you'd like to know that Spring really is coming__even though it's supposed to snow in a few days...again.