# Spring has sprung! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168 "2009-03-20T15:06:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/1 "2009-03-20T15:06:57Z")
Happy vernal equinox, all! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/2 "2009-03-20T15:10:42Z")
And to you as well! 'course, in this neck of the woods, it might snow a foot next week… but probably not, and it’s great to say so long to fourteen hour nights and The Hawk and wind chills so far below zero they make your testes cry out for the sweet release of death. I love the first day of spring. It’s the gateway drug to summer. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/3 "2009-03-20T15:20:18Z")
Happy spring, all. Should anyone need any extra motivation for their annual cleaning binge, I recommend the beginning of [this video](http://video.aol.com/video-detail/rockos-modern-life-zanzibar/631828316). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/4 "2009-03-20T15:29:03Z")
Spring sprang with snow in these parts. Big flakes of snow, despite it being 37 degrees out. Lasted a couple of hours. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/5 "2009-03-20T15:33:11Z")
Ja, we had a skiff of snow this morning. Granted, it’s warmer than it’s been in weeks, and I hear the weekend’s going to be good, but I can’t wait for it to warm up already. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/6 "2009-03-20T15:48:19Z")
We heard [PEEPERS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_peepers) last night! Woohoo! Only about ten of them and only for a few minutes, but they have started. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/7 "2009-03-20T16:51:06Z")
Yay! Spring! The dead frozen hand of winter is beaten back for another season! Time to [celebrate!](http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/605330) ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/8 "2009-03-20T17:03:20Z")
Spring is winning the battle, but it’s a fairly lengthy one here. Nonetheless, it’s going to be warm and sunny today. I love winter, but I’m happy to see spring. It gets _really_ pretty here when everything turns green again. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/9 "2009-03-20T17:33:39Z")
> [@emmaliminal](#): > > We heard [PEEPERS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_peepers) last night! Woohoo! Only about ten of them and only for a few minutes, but they have started. I love Peepers almost as much as tree frogs (Ne-ne-nits). The daffodils are getting ready to bloom even though they got snowed on, but they’ve been covered with snow before and still bloomed. I wish it would go up to around 68degrees. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/10 "2009-03-20T17:40:46Z")
Infernal Equinox is more like it in this neck o’ the woods. It’s 12F out the back window as I type this. The only things that keep me sane are the flocks of redpolls and chickadees visiting the feeder. Still, it’s been sunny and we have 12 hours of daylight now. The roads are dry, which makes driving at least relatively non-hazardous. But spring? Nah, not for another month at least. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/11 "2009-03-20T18:34:51Z")
My yard reeks of grape KoolAid right now, a good thing actually, from the profuse blooms of five [Texas Mountain Laurels](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/HomeHort/F1Column/2007%2520Articles/Plant%2520of%2520the%2520Week/Texas%2520Mountain%2520Laurel.jpg&imgrefurl=http://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/HomeHort/F1Column/2007%2520Articles/Plant%2520of%2520the%2520Week/MAR17TexasMountainLaurel.htm&h=350&w=351&sz=38&tbnid=HzAh7aQwY7f4WM::&tbnh=120&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtexas%2Bmountain%2Blaurel&hl=en&usg=__KLCP3_odAxZP5Hi1YI8Wrp9bg34=&ei=et_DSf6bOqjsnQebuojDDQ&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image&cd=1). The viburnum and redbuds are fading but the wisteria is just about to cut loose. I’ve even been mowing for a couple of weeks. Eleven years ago I started filling this yard with fun things and now that they’ve all matured it’s a great time to be outside appreciating them all. I like the sprung and wish it lasted way longer… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-has-sprung/490168/12 "2009-03-20T19:40:50Z")
I saw my first robin of 09 today, it is indeed officially spring.