Signs of Spring

After many days of near zero or below this winter, but with almost no snow, we're finally starting to see some signs of spring.  Today we had a couple of sprinkles but now at 6:00, it's sunny, windy and 55.

We were on our way to Peggy's house a couple of weeks ago and saw her neighbors riding their horses.  This is still such a fun sight for me to see since we didn't see this in my area of Indiana.

Recently I was in a hardware store and faintly heard some chirping and came upon about 5 containers of baby chicks in various colors/breeds for sale.

I've been watching to see if the new tulips and daffodils I planted were poking through the ground but they're not.  Today I thought to look to see if the older ones next to the house with south sun were coming up and they are!  (about 2" tall)  Daffodils are my favorite flower so I hope to have LOTS of them planted around here eventually.

Some bad news though is that we have two of our two year old new grove trees that look very dead and we're worried about several others that aren't looking too good.  If you've been reading the blog for a while, you might remember we planted 175 new trees two springs ago and watered them during these past two years of drought.  Bad timing for a new grove.  We sure hope most of them take off growing good this spring and summer.

The third Decorah eaglet hatched this morning - yay!  They thought the eggs might not hatch at all this year due to the extreme cold and snow they had in northeastern Iowa after the eggs were layed.  Here's another link to watch the live web cam.  HERE