Once on the robin’s tail.
That’s what we woke to this morning in much of the region: A light covering of wet snow covered the farmyards and fields a couple days after folks around the area reported seeing the season’s first robins.
The oldtimers’ tale, of course, is that it has to snow three times on a robin’s tail before it’s done snowing for the winter and spring.
Whether that adage holds through has long been debatable, but it seems there’s something in the early March air that gives a feeling that it won’t snow much more than three times on the robins’ tails — if it even snows that many times.
It’s Wisconsin, though, and it seems nearly any weather can be expected this time of the year.
The vote in most of farm country is that the best thing would be for the snow to simply leave the robins alone and that we can get on to some spring-like weather to get the fields ready for a growing season much less stressful than we had last year.
Shake it off, robins.
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