Signs of Spring

Today is the first Saturday of Spring and the signs are everywhere:

• An earthworm on the bathroom sink that looks like it has recently been given a bath (or at least "swished" in the sink)
• A little Hereford bull calf, the first baby born to our neighbor's cows this season
  
• St. George composing "cow" jokes (What summer treat gives us milk? A popsicow)
• Marshmallow guns that Todd built and the kids have been using all day
• The chickens chasing the marshmallows being shot across the yard
• The smell of bark mulch on newly dug flower beds
• The fairy tea party Rose and Edison set up under the hemlock tree
• Pillows on the trampoline where the kids hoped to nap in the sun (of course, this being March in Oregon it soon rained; and of course, the children being Oregonians didn't care; and decided that today was the perfect day for a pillow fight on the trampoline in the rain)
• A daddylonglegs in a jar on the kitchen counter