{"id":41459,"date":"2020-02-29T18:14:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T18:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41459"},"modified":"2020-02-29T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T18:14:56","slug":"sounds-of-spring-are-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41459","title":{"rendered":"Sounds of spring are upon us!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I get that it ain’t spring \u2026 just yet!<\/p>\n

We’ve got another three weeks or so until the vernal equinox arrives, but in North Texas I am hearing the sounds of spring already.<\/p>\n

They are?<\/p>\n

Well, let’s see. We have birds chirping at dawn. That’s a sure sign that winter is giving way to spring.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the sound of lawn mowers cranking up. Some of them are sputtering a bit as they get going in our Princeton neighborhood. I root for them to get going. Accordingly we hear the sound of weed whackers and the occasional child squealing as he or she speeds by on a bicycle.<\/p>\n

This clearly is my favorite season of the year, which I have declared already on this blog. I think I’ve said it more than once, so pardon me for repeating myself. It’s the time of year when we awaken from winter slumber and the grumbling about the cold.<\/p>\n

Our grass grows dormant. Then it — pardon the pun — springs<\/em> to life.<\/p>\n

With all the other baloney, malarkey, crapola, nonsense going on this crazy world, I just want to welcome the onset of my favorite time of the year. If only it could overshadow what awaits.<\/p>\n

For now, I am going to enjoy the day.<\/p>\n\n

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I get that it ain’t spring \u2026 just yet! We’ve got another three weeks or so until the vernal equinox arrives, but in North Texas I am hearing the sounds of spring already. They are? Well, let’s see. We have birds chirping at dawn. That’s a sure sign that winter is giving way to spring. … Continue reading Sounds of spring are upon us!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7493,4375,6992],"class_list":["post-41459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-north-texas","tag-spring","tag-vernal-equinox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41460,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions\/41460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}