Last year we didn't have Spring. We went directly from Winter to Summer. Cold and humid to hot and humid. We had some decent rain at the end of April and the trees went from bare to fully leafed out in a flash. This year we had some pretty cold weather, including a bomb cyclone, but the past two weeks have been just like Springtime. Trees are showing some white blossoms, bulbs are starting to pop through the surface, and we are staring to have the critters in evidence.
We have had tiny ants, regular ants and large carpenter ants. Bug spray is at the ready. I have a number of chigger bites. All my remedies are at the ready, too.. Ladybugs are starting to invade us and there have been quite a few attracted to The Christ of the Ozarks Statue. We've had wasps on our Holy Land Tour bus, and Karen was tormented yesterday by a dive-bombing fly. The tree pollen count is high, thus the watery eyes. I've been wearing short pants and in two days I have ripped one pair in the back end, and got roof mastic all over the back end of a second pair while replacing a roof at the kiosk behind the COTO Statue.
Spring has sprung and it is great to know that we can have Spring in Arkansas. I'm sure we'll have some cold weather ahead but, for now, it's great to sit with the windows open with no space heaters needed, but I do wish those pesky chiggers would leave me alone............
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