Today starts Daylight Savings Time in New York.  Although it is still quite cold, DST is the bellwether of better things to come.  It's time to shed the winter lethargy and get back to living.  The Northeast US has had a heck of a winter.  I have had at least two feet of snow on the ground for eight weeks.  The weather has been one arctic blast after another, but it is coming to an end.  We will have another storm or two, but that extra hour of daylight lifts everyone spirits enough to get through it until the buds appear on the trees. 

Spring in the Northeast brings it's own set of problems.  The melting snow will cause flooding, the roads damaged by winter will not be repaired fast enough and when they are the work crews will tie up traffic for hours.  Craftsmen and handimen wlll be at a premium as people rush to take care of repairs and home improvements.  However, the sun will get warmer, the first tendrils of grass will peek through, the crocuses will rear their heads and all will be well with the world.

Farewell couch-potato clothes.  Farewell snuggly slippers.  Farewell cozy blankets.  Farewell stale air.  It is time for renewal and rebirth.  Hello spring fever.  Just can't wait to get outdoors.  It's time for a trip to the garden center to buy some seeds to start indoors.  I should revise that to its time for a trip to the garden center to over-buy seeds to start indoors.  I'll need snow shoes to get to the garden center, but my attitude adjustment will keep me going.  As soon as the snow melts enough to get out on the deck, we'll have a welcome spring cookout in down jackets and hoods.  Now at least, I can fake it til I make it!