Summer is Coming Fast!

[quads]

One of the few times so far this Spring, I didn't light a fire in the stove last night. I should have though, which is what I thought as I lit the fire while shivering this morning. The air is still dry so the nighttime lows get pretty cool. But not for long! The humidity will come soon enough and the lows will be warmer. The forecast is for daytime highs of mid to upper 80s by Sunday!

I've been fishing:

Enjoying the warmer evenings:

Visiting with old friends around the firepit:

And listening to the tree-frogs sing:

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Sweet Quads

I love the fire ring. I am ready to drain my pond the frogs are driving me crazy. But at least now I know not to build my cabin near one!

Billy

 

[quads]

I love the sound of frogs! Those are tree-frogs, they're all around the place.

The fire ring was Mrs. Quads' birthday present last month. We got it at Farm and Fleet and it also has a grill that attaches to it. Works great! Before that we always used a truck rim surrounded by rocks.

 

[Flatbedford]

I love the sound of those peeping tree frogs. There was a swamp across the street from my childhood home. Whenever I hear them, the sound brings me right back home.

 

[Bobbin]

We have a little "pond" (actually more of a wallow) near the house and it's home to all sorts of amphibious life. I love listening to them at night; it's fun to hear the calls change throughout the season. But my favorite is the first time I hear the spring peepers, usually mid-April

(we found a big Milk Snake in the leaf mold bin out back the other day, all of 3' long. They're really pretty. And there is a Garter snake not quite that large that hunts around the back edge of the pond).

 

[quads]

We don't have many snakes around. Sometimes a little green grass snake or a garter snake. Not far from here there used to be rattlesnakes (the bluff where they lived is even named for them), but if there are any left, it's very few.