<p>I shoulda read this thread AFTER I had my breakfast…</p>
<p>All the snow this winter and then when it’s time for our annual Presidents’ Day weekend ski trip to Michigan, the snow is gone.</p>
<p>Well they are predicting 8-10" on Sunday into Monday AM north of I-96 hopefully you’ll get some fresh on Sunday!</p>
<p>There was a guy shoveling snow into the street from the sidewalk in front of a bank here in NYC. It was a really big pile and it was making a new pile in the street. Thing is, it hasn’t snowed here in almost three weeks!! Today it’s all gone, though. Just in time for the rest of the winter.</p>
<p>71 degrees yesterday and I STILL have snow on my deck…but at least the grill is clear…miss my grill!!!</p>
<p>I actually got outside and did some work yesterday, too! Pruned back four yard waste brown bags from four bushes in our front yard. It was some serious, over needed pruning. Problem is we won’t get yard waste pick up for the first time until the beginning of April. But I got it done before those bushes even begin to think about spring budding so hopefully it will work this year.</p>
<p>The snow has receeded from my garden in the past 2 days and today I saw my daffodils have sprouted 1-2". Hard to imagine why, given the frozen ground, but it made me smile and realize spring is only a few weeks away!</p>
<p>We had about a dozen robins in our front yard singing and digging for something yesterday. I believe we will get an early spring.</p>
<p>Sign of spring–it was warm enough for H to gather a big bucket of clams without succumbing to hypothermia.</p>
<p>A bucket of clams! Steamers?</p>
<p>DS lost the neighbors’ house key in the first snow storm this year while he was walking their dog. I suppose it’s time to take another look around the yard for it.</p>
<p>nj2011mom, you must have a nice microclimate there. We usually have snowdrops by now, but not this year!</p>
<p>Saw daffodil shoots poking up through the dirt today. It was 77 yesterday; much colder and wicked winds today; snow expected Tuesday. Found some garden tools in the front flower bed.</p>
<p>Igloo–quahogs: some chowder size, some cherrystone, a few littlenecks. Steamers are a different king of clam.</p>
<p>We had a combination of a full moon plus a blow out tide from the wind, so he was able to go way far out to collect them. SAid it looked like something out of the Five Chinese Brothers, so much water was gone.</p>