April, go she will
I can’t remember a change of months on the farm more dramatic than today. After an exceptionally cool April, it yielded to May at just above freezing. Right now it’s 12 C. (54 F.). Not balmy, perhaps, but the sky is clear and the winds friendly. Earlier I heard the dogs barking in the back yard. They were in a Mexican standoff with three Canada geese. (I guess that would be an International standoff.) The geese were in the middle of the pond and the dogs as far out as they could wade. On the far side of the pond, a pair of mallard ducks billed and cooed as a heron watched. Swallows, robins and sparrows were swooping about as a raven soared over all of it.
The geese went after the mallards, so Jude went after the geese in a kayak. Life doesn’t get any sweeter than that.
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Anchor Struck 
That is a day in Canada all right!
And yesterday was even more delightfully warm.
AP
Always great to see your words pop up on the email. Hopefully, your homestead continues to provide the hope and comfort of the new season that is upon us, wherever we may be. A lot of nasty storms blowing just north and just south of SEK-we have mostly received way too much rain-last week’s total rainfall in Crawford County (from a variety of reliable sources) was somewhere between 9″ and 12″…a wee bit too much, but we will most likely be whining the other way by the time July is over…peace to you with continued recovery. Adios, Marine…semper fi
JB and The Colonel
We watched the weather patterns anxiously. Nearly all my family and friends live in a triangle with points in Columbia MO, Tahlequah OK and Basehor KS. No casualties or damage reported, thank Random Chance. My best to the Colonel.
geese are nasty things and rather filthy. ducks at least don’t attack you!
And geese poop out what looks like green Cheetos all over the yard.