Spring has Sprung!

Today it was so warm out that I didn’t need to wear my jacket as I walked to my car this morning. Hooray! I feel that Illinois has finally come to its senses and decided to give us a bit of the warmth that the rest of the nation has been reveling in.
Spring in Illinois usually brings storms of one kind or another, which I am more than prepared for. The benefit of living in northern Illinois is that you get the violent storms of Tornado Alley, but without the F4 and F5 tornadoes. I’ve always loved storms, and now I get to live in an area famous for them. This very morning, at five o’clock, I woke to booming thunder and lightning illuminating the whole cloud-layered sky. Ahh Spring!