Saturday 10:45 am: Here we are about a week, or so, into spring and it’s snowing, or is it raining; we’ve got a bit of both. Sometimes it’s too confusing. The NWS in Caribou called this morning to update my information with them. The weather worker on the other end said it was raining there. At the moment the Saint John River isn’t flooding.

Myself and Sandy, our escape artist, bringing in firewood - she supervised

This morning was the first time in months that we saw our first Red-winged Blackbirds at our feeder. Weather sometimes changes rapidly up here, or it changes so slowly that it is undetectable. Two of our dogs finally realized they could walk over our fence and into the woods. So yesterday Ruth and I were busily shoveling snow away from our fence to keep our dogs inside our yard. A few times I broke through the snow and ice up to my waist. It’s only taken them all winter and into spring to solve that problem. We thought they would have figured it out months ago. Our other two dogs have no sense of daring and are quite happy to sit back and let the others take the risk. For today, all is secure.

Although it is snowing [and raining], and we have plenty of snow on the ground, it is quickly turning to slush. The weather forecast from yesterday stated to expect “Slush to four inches of snow.” I like snow and cold and usually we have lots of it, but whatever we have today, it is messy. Mud season is just around the corner.

Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 38° [F.]

Barometer: 29.928 & rising slowly

Humidity: 86%

Wind: Calm

Visibility: < ½ mile

Skies: low overcast – snowing & raining

Precipitation: ca. 1 inch snow – currently rain and snow mixed

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 34° [F.] at 4:01 am

High wind: 7 mph at 10:33 am