Spring Is Trying To Slip In

It has been SEVEN weeks since the Groundhog said SIX more weeks of winter.  I must go to the barn tomorrow for another load of wood because we are still running both stoves.  Iowa has 6 to 10 inches of snow, and there are power outages.  I think my little brother, the jeweler is in the cold tonight, because he needs power to have heat.  In Southern Illinois, it is cold, but at least we have mud instead of snow, but it still feels like winter tonight. 

Yesterday the precip was light, so we took Pattie out for a brief yard walk with the dogs and stopped to take a photo.  Try posing five dogs and getting a good photo.  It was a good time, and Pattie enjoyed it.  We have lots of daffodils, and the Iris is up about four inches now.

It was four and a half years ago that we made the patch of daffodils at the end of the driveway.  The ground was dry and hard, so we had to bore a hole for every bulb.  Pattie had her earmuffs on because the generator is loud, and the work sure paid off.