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The first sign of spring?
« on: March 10, 2025, 03:19:00 PM »
The first sign of spring? DST - Daylight Stupid Time. Pretending it's a different time than it is for 2/3 of the year. Why not for the whole year? Or would that somehow defeat "the purpose" of it? How about none of the time , like 2/3 of the other countries in the world? I know everyone is tired of hearing it, but I'm still going to complain about it. Now Germany is only 5 hours ahead of Michigan instead of 6, but since I haven't made a transatlantic call in 41 years, it doesn't make any difference.

The second sign of spring? I have crocuses, or croci if you prefer, blooming in my back yard. It seems like they used to be bluer, but I'm brain damaged and partly colorblind, so I can't be sure. If the grape hyacinth in the front yard ever comes back again it will be bluer and a lot darker than this. This isn't the same variety of crocus that saffron comes from, but if it was you can be sure I wouldn't mow it down. At around 20 bucks a gram, that comes out to ~$9,000 a pound. I would proudly pick a pound of powdery pistils. ;D Wouldn't you like to retire on saffron money and enjoy the rest of your life?

The third sign of spring? Spring will be here in about a week and a half. It's already in the 60s, but technically speaking, winter isn't over yet. And this IS Michigan, so anything is possible. I won't be taking the snowplow off my ATV just yet. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocus
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2025, 06:29:35 PM »
My sister has become a master gardener, so now I get gentle reminders as to how we mispronounce some of the names.  According to her.

Crow cue sis.  accent on 2nd syllable. 

It reminds me when medical "professionals" were pronouncing cm as Saw-nta Meter.
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2025, 01:55:50 PM »
 :)

My ex's grandmother had Clematis, from Ancient Greek for "a climbing plant", covering a chain link fence. It seems like everyone else pronounces it CLEM-a-tis, but they pronounced it cle-MAH-tis. The "ma" in the middle makes it sound a lot like the abomination known as Clamato. :o  One third of North America's supply of Clamato is used instead of tomato juice to make a worse version of a Bloody Mary cocktail called a Caesar. It's also used in a Mexican beer cocktail called michelada. And added to beer to make a beer 'n clam in Canada. Just thinking about those drinks makes me ill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clematis

P.S. A sign that spring isn't really here yet. It was in the 20s when I got up this morning! Brr. It probably won't get over 45 and it's going to rain.
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2025, 07:31:16 PM »
It's supposed to be a low of 57 degrees tonight, 30 tomorrow night, and in the 20s and low 30s for the remainder of a week. Here's another sign of spring, besides it getting up to 70 degrees again today. Tornado season is here. I got a text and email about this, plus the city tests the tornado sirens at 1 pm the first Saturday of every month during tornado season, about 3/4 of the year. I was sleeping and didn't hear it.

STATEWIDE TORNADO DRILL.
This is a test of the Genesee County 911 Weather Alert System.
Outdoor tornado sirens will begin their test at 1pm.

In coordination with the Genesee County Sheriffs Office Emergency Management, and the Michigan State Police, will be participating in a voluntary statewide tornado drill. Outdoor sirens will begin their test at 1pm, and RAVE emergency alerts will be sent to users enrolled in Tornado Alerts.
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2025, 02:31:59 PM »
When I worked downtown ATL a lot of guys, not me of course, thought the first true sign of spring was when they saw the first see-through blouse.  A fashion thing back in those days.
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Re: The first sign of spring?
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2025, 12:05:07 AM »
When the weather gets a bit nipply? :)
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2025, 12:53:13 PM »
I heard the Spring peepers  the other night singing the love song of their people.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwVEI5M-948&t=25s
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #7 on: Yesterday at 03:00:32 AM »
This is a quarter after 9 Monday morning at my friend's cabin and it's only 24 degrees. Brr. Somewhere in the picture may be a split-rail fence and steel gate but I don't see them. It doesn't look much like a driveway anyway. There are trees and big branches down on some of the cabins. There are so many trees and limbs down, the neighbor who lives at the corner of the lane couldn't even find the driveway from there to my friend's cabin. We had a severe thunderstorm here that I slept through, and they were warning about penny size hail. Or some coin smaller than a quarter. I read the warnings hours after it ended and deleted them. There were 60 mph winds and the storm was moving 70 mph. I guess the ice storm that hit 130 miles north of here was the same storm. I heard there were tornadoes too and someone died because of something falling on them or their car. I can't remember exactly what my friend's wife told me, but I guess they've been without power up there a couple of days already. The guy who lives at the end of the lane and plows it for everyone works for the power company. He said it could be another week before power is restored. So, my friend has to take time off work to get limbs off buildings and try to clean up what he can. He won't be able to drive to the cabin, but may be able to cut a path to get his ATV through. If the power isn't back on soon he's going to have to bring home a couple of turkeys and whatever else is in the freezer in the well house.

Meanwhile, I've had a butt-load of dark green foliage of star-of-Bethlehem in the back yard for over a week. I looked out the hall window upstairs and could see clumps of dark green among the hay colored grass. The leaves are like grass but darker green with a silvery color stripe down the middle like seen in this picture. It was 4-5" high when I looked at it a couple days ago. I haven't seen any flowers yet. Hopefully I'll get a pic of some before I have to mow. It's spring and winter at the same time.
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #8 on: Yesterday at 07:04:28 PM »
Pecan trees still ain't budding out yet......that's usually the sign in south GA.
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #9 on: Yesterday at 07:31:17 PM »
My tulips that I thought died are getting tall but don't have any flowers yet. I didn't see any daffodils, and they usually bloom and drop their flowers before the tulips bloom. I read somewhere a long time ago the word for daffodil used to be daffy-down-dilly. ???
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