Ah, signs of spring -

As I was driving to work today, a saw the first signs of spring in our town. It was not this:



It was these:




Yes, the dump truck was hauling away snow the front end loader had scooped up.

Now the second sign of spring was seen later in the drive. See, we get over 200 inches of snow a year. There are weeks that we see daily snow. As a result, the road crews put sand on the roads almost daily from for almost 3 mos. This sand builds up on the lawn. Each spring, we have a machine drive that looks like a street cleaner only it has a vacuum cleaner style beater bar on it. It lifts all the loose dirt off the lawns. For the public areas that are hills, they use a hand held scrubber.

Ah, the signs of spring - snow and dirt removal! Who knew?