The title says it all. What sense do you use? The warm sunshine on your skin, seeing the first bird back from migration or listening to the birds squabble for territory? I use my hearing to listen for the Spring Peepers that croak in the swamp behind my house. Love that noisy sound if only for a few weeks. And they are LOUD this year!

 

There's a tree in the area that, when it flowers (spring time), smells like someone popped off a load. Yeah...I'm serious (google semen smelling tree). They were talking about it on the radio this morning.

 

They must not grow in my area. YUK! Googled, I did............Encino411 | The Trees that Smell of Semen

 

Lucky you, lol. The smell was very faint yesterday morning when I went to work. I hardly noticed it. When I came home though...damn.

 

I just look at what the young ladies around here are wearing - makes the frozen food section at the supermarket more entertaining, also...

 

Not 'sense'. 'Senses'.

Touch. I feel the warmth of the sunshine on my old, fat, gray-haired body.

Smell. I smell the dog doo that's drying in the back yard, from the sunshine. (See above.)

Sight. I see the young girls walking down the street, wearing shorts and low-cut tops, and I see the young boys walking behind them, trying to catch up!

Sound. I hear these young boys 'talking trash' to these young girls (see above comment on sight.) That sound makes me wanna punch those rude, crude, socially un-acceptable young boys, for talking that crap to these young girls.

Taste. While 'enduring' all of the above, I'm sitting on the deck, sipping on a tall glass of un-sweetened Iced Tea, with a slice of squeezed-in lemon and lime.
(In my left hand, is a highball glass with two fingers of Maker's Mark - neat, and I'm sippin' on that, too!)



Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Springtime. Don'cha just love it!!

 

When my "pet" skunk returns to nest up underneath the concrete slab of my shop. Cannot get rid of the little sucker. i.e. Sense of smell.

When the pecker bird comes to nest in my office bushes. We have mirror film on our entry glass and this feathered friend spends the day fighting off his adversary. He pecks at himself all day long. Covers both sense of vision and sound.



The smell of shot gun cleaning fluid when boys start coming around my twenty year old daughter....again. Not to mention the sound of my slide stock on the AR-15....mimicking the sound of jacking rounds.

I like Spring.

 

Most of the stuff mentioned above,but in the back of my mind I remember it is still March and I have seen several inches of snow as late as mid april,happened a couple years ago.

 

all the bugs splattered on the windshield of my work truck ........... if they're on it it's spring !!!!!!!!!

 

Frogs
Daffodils
Fruit tree blossoms.........we got em' all, but hard to enjoy in the torrential downpour.

No scantily clad females yet, and in eugene Or. thats a good thing........
Think female Sasquatches.

 

Hmmm. So...... that is what Eugene, OR has in common with Europe.

 

Sound.
When I get the bike out of the garage for the first time and crank it up... It takes some feathering of the throttle to finally get it warmed up (I try very hard not to use the choke). Nothing like the sound of my Cobra slip-ons! Oh, and the bugs on the windscreen.

 

Ditto on the sound.

Between all the Harleys running around, the kids playing in the alley, and people playing with their dogs in the field, I know it's spring.

 

I watch the plants every year, to tell me when seeds are happy.

You can take a tomato from a garden and just leave it somewhere in a corner of it to tell you when to plant. When last years leftovers push up sprouts, it is time!

And this year has been crazy - too warm too soon. WILL IT HOLD?

I just don't know...

IT DID! And the bugs will probably be real bad this year....

I HAVE SPROUTS FROM LAST YEARS CAST ASIDES ALL OVER MY GARDEN! They are just plain pushin' UP!!!

I'm willing to stake my honor on this - in TN if you have not got sprouts coming up out of the ground you are now seriously LATE for the sprouting season!

You can look at trees, the far ends of the twigs on them tell you when they are beginning to thaw out and bud.

But when a garden plant left to be a "TELL" begins to sprout, you better hope you have some flats to get ready quick


~Seed flats you can start outside. (I NEVER MESS WITH INDOOR SEED FLATS)
HARDENING OFF seeds is the best way to kill them, instead of gaining an advantage

 

I like the sound of a Harley also. I live ALMOST (too close) on a state hiway and when 20-30 of those things come screaming by above the 35 MPH speed limit, it gets a little unbearable. Some times I hate sunny Saturdays and Sundays.