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To: Peach who wrote (209)	3/9/2002 7:55:11 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 338

It got up to 65 F. here by 2:30 this afternoon. VERY odd weather for this time of year up here in the Frozen North. However, I never complain about warm weather. I'll take all that gets sent this way. However, the wind has picked up out of the west... That August has sent it on this way I think.. what a fella... <gg>. The flocks of geese were flying overhead in droves today... A large flock every few minutes (or less)..all heading Northeast. We've seen geese on their way up north for about 10 days now. This may be the earliest migration that I've seen in a few years. I figure that the geese must know what they're doing and that this might be an early spring. Today, I was out in my gardens poking around the perennial beds checking out the plants wherever the snow has finally melted away. I can't believe how great the plants look this year. We have had, by far, the mildest winter I've ever seen and the ground surface is barely frozen. The plants look wonderful.. all green and healthy. I should mention that most of our perennials die back to the roots with, perhaps, a little bit of green at the center of the leaves, but the rest is usually dead and you just trim it away early in the spring and everything starts over from the ground up. We're Zone 5, so this is pretty much how things normally are. However, this year, the plants won't need much trimming at all and I bet they will be pretty far along on the way to flowering very early in the summer. This is probably more like what Zone 6 or 7 winters would be like.