A sure sign of spring around here is the arrival of the street sweepers to clean away the salt. The kids always anxiously await this auspicious moment because we do not allow them to ride bikes until the roads are swept. Seeing a street sweeper in action has made our spring list a couple years in a row but most of the time we don't get to see them do our street as the kids are usually in school and have to settle for watching them clean other streets.
There was thus great joy and celebrations at our house.