It’s that time of year – the time that we locals both love and loathe. After a very long winter and what always feels like a months-long hibernation, people are venturing out of the house and seasonal businesses are opening their doors.

I see my neighbors cleaning up their yards and doing spring maintenance. We recently had work done to repair our porch, painted the deck and dock and have a load of stones on the way to even out the yard (where do they go?).