I hope everyone reading this has their taxes filed and is just kicking back enjoying the fine spring weather and that refund check. It is a great day for firing up the grill or just sitting outside and taking in the pre-cicada quiet.

Spring has really sprung this year. The flowers are bigger, more colorful and much more numerous than in past years. The maple trees dropped a bumper crop of helicopters. Maybe nature is trying to encourage us to get back out there and make it happen.

I am ready and it looks like most other folks are too.