Spring!

OK. It’s official.  I, Viktor, the PON am officially proclaiming that Nova Scotia – well at least the area I live in – will NO longer be getting ANY more snow.  We are DONE.  I figure if groundhog can proclaim 6 more weeks of winter, a PON can claim winter is OVER.  And we’re not talking about the calendar dates.  We KNOW that Spring started mid-March according to some astronomers or something.  But we here in Nova Scotia have experienced horrible weather – especially since that large rodent made his forecast back in February.

But yesterday, we all went for two long walks.  We still can’t do the trails yet – and make no mistake, we still have 2 feet of snow covering our lawn, and piles around the driveway were we could hold a ski jumping event.  BUT – the luge run is 80% clear of all ice – and we can see that stuff called pavement. Our human got the bill from the snowplow operator. The guy who three times left a snow pile blocking our driveway – because he got stuck – and just left and never came back.

But all that is BEHIND us.  And we are joyfully celebrating the re-emergence of the poop piles.  I can’t WAIT until more snow melts so I can get back into my obsess-i-fetch.  Where my human keeps throwing a toy – that I retrieve – until her arm is ready to fall off.  Right now the snow is still too deep – and playing on pavement isn’t really fun.  But it won’t be long if the temperatures continue like yesterday.  It was wonderful.

The warmer weather also heralds the annual “changing of the wardrobe” for my human.  All of the lighter clothes emerged yesterday in preparation for really warm temperatures.  Unfortunately, what began with the leftover Halloween candy in the fall and what ended with a lack of exercise due to snow and ice, resulted in much moaning and groaning coming from the closet yesterday.  All the better for us – even MORE walks will be on the agenda now.  Sweet.

So the sun is shining.  The birds are singing.  The snow piles are decreasing.  We are getting more walks.  Life is good.  VERY good! I think I'll do some zoomies!

© Linda Wozniak