Top Ten reason I CAN’T WAIT FOR SPRING!

10. It’s much more pleasant to walk dogs when a frigid wind isn’t chapping your face and freezing your fingers, which are wet from dog slobber because you’re training with food.

9. Seeing crocus burst through the snow is a real mood-lifter!

8. My legs lose that sick white look when I start walking in shorts instead of ten layers of insulated clothing.

7. The birds begin to come back.

6. My ‘way-to-big forsythia bushes look like huge balls of flame from a distance.

5. I start itching to move perennials around in March.

4. I adore daffodils, tulips and all the other spring bulbs.

3. Dogwood trees. I like all the flowering trees but dogwood . . . ahhhh.

2. My irises get ready for a beautiful bloom show in May.

1. Soon I’ll be able to wash down the back porch and begin sitting out there to work each day. Yay!!