The first sign of spring?

[Big Frank]

We have a family in church that causes me to shake my head. They have four girls - a college sophomore, twin high school seniors, and a sixteen year-old. These girls are all excellent and gifted athletes. volleyball and soccer consume all their spare time, and some time that should be spent on other things. These girls only clothing choice, except for an Easter dress, is spandex leggings. I have always questioned their clothing choice and it approprietness, but recently Mom has dedicated her wardrobe to spandex.

Spandex is like a mini skirt: If you wore it in high school, and your teenage daughters wear it, JUST SAY NO! Regardless of your fitness level, it just wasn't meant for you anymore.

How's this for inappropriate? When I was stationed in Germany, the Colonel had twin teenage daughters. The jail-bait twins both wore skin-tight jeans all the time. Someone asked one of them how they could get into jeans that were so incredibly tight, and you wouldn't believe her answer. They put their jeans on when they were soaking wet and stretchy enough to fit them. Then they dried them with hair dryers and they shrunk down skin tight!

[MikeBjerum]

How's this for inappropriate? When I was stationed in Germany, the Colonel had twin teenage daughters. The jail-bait twins both wore skin-tight jeans all the time. Someone asked one of them how they could get into jeans that were so incredibly tight, and you wouldn't believe her answer. They put their jeans on when they were soaking wet and stretchy enough to fit them. Then they dried them with hair dryers and they shrunk down skin tight!

I heard that once as well.

[Big Frank]

I heard that once as well.

It was a new one to me. There were a lot of sinful thoughts going around on post back then. I hope the girls enjoyed their good looks while they lasted, because beauty is a perishable commodity.

I had to mow my grass again and it was LONG. It didn't take long to get long. I finished it on one tank of gas but just barely.

[Big Frank]

I had some Star-of-Bethlehem in my back yard yesterday. I mowed around it this time. It grew since the last time I mowed, a week or so ago. My daffodils never bloomed unless it happened when I wasn't looking. And neither did most of my tulips. I mowed them all down. Nothing left now but roses in 2 weeks, and daylilies. The map at Wikipedia says that Ornithogalum umbellatum, the garden star-of-Bethlehem, doesn't grow in Michigan. I suppose it could be a different kind of Ornithogalum. They're part of the asparagus family, which includes asparagus, yucca, bluebell, lily of the valley, and hosta, and the houseplants include snake plant, corn cane, spider plant, and plumosus fern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithogalum_umbellatum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithogalum

[Diamondback]

Sign of spring: When it's finally warm enough for the fuzballs to start wanting their lap time sharing my bucket of walnuts in the porch chair again. This year Munch has decided he wants some too--last year he was more "climb leg, grab walnut out of bucket, skedaddle then come back for another" leaving the "sit, graze a little and snooze a bit" to the girls.

[Sponsor]

[Big Frank]

We had a tornado watch and a severe thunderstorm warning Thursday. That sure sounds like spring to me.

[red364]

You know its spring here because the wind is blowing!

[MikeBjerum]

Here too!  Last evening the weather radio went nuts about dust storms. Dust storms in the burbs of Chicago? Sure enough, half an hour later the 40 mph winds swept through with dust so thick you couldn't see across the street.

By the way, welcome back to the nut house Red? I know it has been a tough time, but hopefully you can have some fun here.

[TAB]

Rain today.

[Big Frank]

Yesterday my friend said that now there's hail every time there's a thunderstorm. It didn't used to be that way, but now, I guess it's a hail of storm every time.