Is spring coming?  Of course it is, it always has. There are signs out there.  The buds on the cottonwood's buds are growing.  There are baby goats in the kid barn, a long line of milkers in the milker's barn, and even more big fat goats in the dry milker's pen.  The turkey tom is strutting his stuff and the ducks and hens have started laying, if sporadically.  We've already sent seed to the greenhouse that starts our tomatoes, peppers, and cole crops.

As soon as I can get out to the orchard the apple and plum trees need pruning.  I think most of the grapes are under a snow drift.  As soon as I can find them they'll need pruning too.

Spring is coming even though we still have drifts 5 feet deep and the days are just barely getting above freezing.  The horned larks have been here for weeks and the red-winged black birds will soon be here.  Spring is coming.  It always has before.