Never Soon Enough

A Note from the Other Side of Winter:

Finally, it's beginning to feel like spring. It still snows, but only inches and not feet at a time. It gets above freezing during the days, and does not always drop below zero at night. I am ready for it. Winter was long and cold. A lot happened. I am ready for this change of seasons, as ready as I could ever be. I look forward to long warm days in my fishing boat and late, sunlit evenings with instruments and friends. No more being couped up inside. It's time for us snowy-hermits to escape to the outer world, to again feel sun on our bellies and jump into streams...

Of course, the ground is still covered with snow, and mud season will be a mess. Soon enough, however, summer will be upon us. I will be happy, and will celebrate with some drinking and fishing, against the will of the state! Hah!