Came home from a great visit to our daughter's to find spring flowers all over. The forsythia are in full bloom, and so are the white flowering pear trees. The magnolia west of the house is opening, and the redbud outside my office window. This is very early, the earliest I can remember the forsythia blooming is  the last week in March. Today will reach 80! That is too hot for this early, I hope we don't have an unbearably hot summer. The grass needs mowing very soon. Good news is the donkeys that are out in pasture are deserting the hay quickly, as the grass is coming on strong enough to feed them, and is so much tastier!