There is frost on the car window this morning, but Spring is surely on the way here. The daffodils are starting to appear everywhere. Texas has bluebonnet fields. North Carolina has daffodil fields. The azaleas are even popping out in some parts of town. The Spring Peepers have been out off and on for a few weeks, but they are becoming nearly constant in the evenings now. And I haven't worn my long johns in 3 days now! My husband would say that is the best sign of spring!! Another certain sign of the seasonal change is my younger son's activities. The land here is often separated by ditches for irrigation drainage. The land is so flat that the flooding would be tremendous without the ditches. One of our ditches runs along the road and is partly drained by a pipe under the road into another ditch. Where the pipe empties out there is a large puddle. My son has been developing "mixtures and solutions" out of the gunk there. He adds the gravel and sand from the road and makes his stuff. He has spent hours out there lately. Of course he comes in covered in dirt and mud. I have had to do a lot more laundry lately. And the "sun room" is now the "mud room". But I wouldn't trade these days for anything.