Yes, Even the Weather can be evil and deceptive...

So... I have reached a decision. Either the groundhog lied or the weather is playing awful tricks on me. Let me explain better. It is the middle of February. It is still winter by all rights. We are still like a month away from the equinox. The groundhog said there would be six more weeks of winter. Everywhere in the lower 48 (heehee I sound so Alaskan now), there is all kinds of stormy winter weather. Yet somehow, somehow on the peninsula the weather has decided that it is spring. Here is how I know...

1. The temperature has been staying about freezing and rather close to Forty for a couple of weeks now.
2. This has led to the melting of snow and ice... all day and all night my roof goes drip drip drip as the snow that has been there all winter slowly melts. Today I saw road lines on a couple of roads that I drove on, as well as some brown (under a thin layer of ice) on the dirt roads I was driving on.
3.There are real birds (aka birds that do not stay the winter) back chirping and singing in the trees (the winter birds do not chirp or sing seeing as they are all ravens and birds of prey).
4. I saw some bushes with small flower buds on them.

Now you may be rejoicing with me that spring has come early to the frozen north. Except this means there are only two options that this early spring can develop into. And to be honest, I don't like either option. So, let me further explain...

option A: This is a false spring. Meaning that in another week or so, winter will come back in full force with lots of snow and below freezing temperatures, making the roads icey, the birds sad, and the buds die. This will mean having to wear winter gear again... plugging my car in again... and letting it run for a while before I drive in it again.

option B: This really is the start of spring. Now at first this one seems better. But since this is February and not April, this means we are still three months away from warm temperatures, no snow, and green. If this really is the start of spring, it's going to develop slowly. It's going to take FOREVER and I'm going to sink in depression waiting for it to really be spring. It'll get ugly and brown and I'll feel like I'm back in Missouri again.

Of course there is no option C... so if God, and the weather, and the groundhog are taking my opinion into consideration, I would like to have which ever option makes May come faster. Because I miss the green, and the warm, and the lots of day light, and the hiking, and the camping, and the being outside and not having to wear waterproof, (fake) fur lined boots....

Speaking of which, I'm thinking about getting some rain boots. But that is neither here, nor there.