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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:34 PM
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What's your favorite thing about Spring?
Edited on Mon Mar-22-04 01:37 PM by YellowRubberDuckie
Tell us what your favorite part of spring is...

Mine is watching the flowers come alive, and the trees get their leaves. It's happening so fast. And there are new baby calves everywhere. It's so fun to watch them playing in the fields. And all the happy birds are back. I love spring. And the butt ass cold is gone. Thank God. Edit: I forgot about wearing flip flops everyday!
Duckie
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:36 PM
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1. Boys in sandals.
Seriously.
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:39 PM
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2. The return of warm weather
I wish I lived somewhere where it didn't get cold in the winter.
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Mistress Quickly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:39 PM
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3. Green
and birds singing.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:40 PM
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4. Opening the windows.
It gets so stuffy indoors during winter.

Terry
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:45 PM
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5. Baseball Spring Training
It's a whole new season with hope and expectation for even the worst teams.
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mulethree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:46 PM
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6. Can't think of a thing, but I LOVE your wet cat pic
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:46 PM
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7. Bluebonnets!
All wildflowers, really. :-)
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:05 PM
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23. Separated at birth!
I completely agree. There's nothing prettier in the whole wide world than a hillside covered in bluebonnets and buttercups. :)
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alterfurz Donating Member (723 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:47 PM
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8. "The best thing about the promise of Spring...
...is that sooner or later, she'll have to keep it." -- Mark Twain
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:49 PM
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9. The trees get to look pink as you drive around.
It is the buds and for some reason I like to see that as with that and the sugar pails up you know Spring is on the way.
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historian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:52 PM
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10. watching my fruit trees bloom
and wondering how many would survive the winds we have around here. Almonds, nectarines, grapes, peaches, apricots, pomegranets and figs. Swoon
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Mr. McD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:52 PM
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11. Spring flowers.
My garden comes back to life.

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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 02:07 PM
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12. Gorgeous flower!
I'd be interested to see more pictures of your garden as they bloom this spring.
Duckie
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 02:20 PM
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13. Sun dresses
Love women in sun dresses. :evilgrin:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 04:38 PM
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20. Yep sun dresses
:bounce:
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:07 PM
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25. also short shorts
What a lovely sight.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 03:02 PM
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14. OPEN WINDOWS
Sleeping with the windows open... driving with the windows down... opening the windows when we get home from work... staying home all weekend with all the windows open.

Yep. Definitely open windows.

The birds are wonderful, the peepers are fun, the whippoorwill, when she sings, moves me to tears, the flowers are magnificent, the green is ridiculously welcome . . . .

but I have to say open windows are my favorite thing about spring.
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:23 PM
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28. you should come to my apartment
the heat is so oppressive, the windows stay open year round!
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IrateCitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 03:16 PM
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15. The first warm day of the year in NYC...
I always need a neck brace by the time I get to the office, but the injury is well worth it! :evilgrin:
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 03:18 PM
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16. The flowers and the new leaves
And all the corny spring jokes, like putting plastic Slinkies around...

Tucker
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MikeH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 04:07 PM
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17. The Days Getting Longer
Edited on Mon Mar-22-04 04:10 PM by MikeH
I like seeing the days get longer, starting in January, becoming noticeable in February, and really becoming longer with spring. I also look forward to going on Daylight Saving Time and it being light later in the evening.

Also here in San Diego spring is the one time of the year we have colorful flowers and green grassy hillsides, particularly if we had good rain during the winter.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:23 PM
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29. Definitely -- the longer days are very cool!
I sort of feel human again as they get long enough for me to drive home from work without turning on the headlights!

:toast:
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 04:31 PM
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18. critters!
the frogs are calling, the lizards are crawling, the turtles & snakes can't be far behind. 'bout time for the snakestick, camera & cooler! Hope springs anew.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 04:37 PM
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19. watching th e progress of the stuff in my garden, and planning camping
trips
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adriennel Donating Member (776 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 04:42 PM
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21. getting my hands dirty
in the garden, of course! I've been planning since last fall. First in: three new lilacs.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:04 PM
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22. Lilacs are my favorite....
My grandmother had a big lilac bush in her front yard, and every time I smell them, I think of her.
Duckie
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LastKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:06 PM
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24. the rain...
i love the rain, its rained on my birthday every year for the last 10 years (give or take a year here or there) so somehow ive linked some sort of satisfaciton to rain... that and i just like watching storms, its a bit weird i know.

-LK
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:08 PM
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26. Nothing weird about it...
It's actually a pasttime here in oklahoma, where the storms can get violent. It's calming watching it rain. Not weird at all.
Duckie
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LastKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:12 PM
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27. ive found a peacefulness to it.... oddly...
not voilent storms, just rain though. the storms i like to watch, but i just seem to like the dreary mild rain especially if it goes on all day.

-LK
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:26 PM
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30. Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head
with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

The rain makes still pools
on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools
in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song
on our roof at night

And I love the rain

==Langston Hughes "April Rain Song"

nuff said.
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:28 PM
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31. the fact that in only seven short months...
it'll be ski season!

that and the legs.
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gyopsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:34 PM
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32. It gets too hot!
Down here in Florida anyway. It's nice during our winters (50s and 60s) and it curbs back up into the 80s during our springs.
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sonias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 06:09 PM
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33. Redbud trees blooming
Wildflowers and green grass, warm weather and mild temperatures, spring rocks. Right now here in Austin, the Redbud trees are in bloom as are the Texas Mountain Laurels. Most of the Redbud trees are pink or a fuchsia color and the Mountain Laurels are purple blooms. It's friggin beautiful.

I love spring. Takes your breath away.

Sonia
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