Ah! Spring (in Vermont)

We have learned to our delight (????) that Vermont has five seasons: summer, fall, winter, mud season and spring. This was explained to us by two gentlemen clerks in Radio Shack on Thursday. We'd heard several references to it, but weren't sure what it meant. Last weekend was so nice that some of the "mud celebrations" were cancelled for lack of mud.
Yesterday, we visited with another set of clerks (older gentlemen) who assured us that the unseasonably warm weather this year has made us skip mud season altogether. We'd seen a couple of mud boggers which are vehicles which help pull people out of the mud absolutely every inch of which were covered with mud. They pronounced the warm weather as a boon to commuters on Vermont's many byways. We encountered one of those byways on our way to the Repository yesterday morning. We had to go by the FedEx and encountered a "beautiful" road which, fortunately, was hardened by the frost. This morning we have pouring, down wet rain. I think we'll skip the byways!