It's time to start dreaming of spring. We've turned the clocks ahead. Town meeting is a memory. The roads have begun to get a little muddier. Much of the snow is melting, though March won't let us escape without a few more snow falls. My neighbor used to call these light snows 'poor man's car wash'.

The maple tree tappers are busy already. We just got our first gallon of this year's maple syrup from a Sandgate neighbor. This is the just the weather they love, warming days and cold nights. They say it makes the sap run.