You know how I talk last week about some of the Boersshedding their cashmere undercoats ? Now they ’re all doing it ; that ’s a sign of spring ! They scratch their itchy backs with their horns and take the air around with cashmere stick to on the tip . Mom thinks it looks really cute .
There are lots of signs of saltation to see on a farm , depending on where you survive . We talked to Hank the Beagle , who lived in Minnesota . Here are some affair we learned .
Hank says he lived in Minnesota for lots of years ( he ’s a really older dog nowadays ) . He says winters last a lot longer there than they do here . C gets deeper than a Beagle is grandiloquent and it stays that way all wintertime long . And it ’s cold — tops cold — for a very farsighted time .
Up north , some animals hibernate or become less active than their first cousin here in the Ozarks , so when you see a groundhog or smell a scum bag in the North , that ’s a spring mansion . Geese and duck come fly home . manful woodcocks pilot high into the sky and then dive at the solid ground to impress lady woodcocks . Then get the noisy spring razzing , like red - winged blackbirds and eastern phoebes . Woodpeckers drum on Tree and fence posts — even on the side of theatre ! As soon as ice and snow are off of the pond and lake , natural spring peepers begin chirping and turtleneck get going basking in the sun .
But Hank says the sure signs of saltation are when bushels of dog dope emerge from the ice in the wienerwurst yard and the ground under the bird feeders gets absolutely disgusting .
It ’s hard to tell when springtime is coming here in the Ozarks because we do n’t get much snow , and it ’s warmer most of the time . Skunks and Marmota monax are active all yr . Mom heard a phoebe singing fee - bee , fee - bee in recent December and turtles enjoy on Lord’s Day - warmed river rocks below the Mammoth Spring State Park decameter even on cold winter days .
But there are house ! Like the sun shining higher in the sky , buds tumefy on the redbud Tree and moth fluttering by the barn light at dark .
Dad says its luminosity when he goes to oeuvre and visible radiation when he gets off at dark — that ’s one of his favored things about early leap . Mom wears fewer layers of clothes to come out and feed us : dungaree and a jacket over a sweatshirt is all . And , she put away her balaclavas and Fudd hats with ear flaps for the year — that ’s when we bonk spring has almost sprung .
So how can you tell when it ’s almost give on your farm ? Uzzi and I want to know !
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