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How are ya' now?!?

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Greetings from the Staff at Minnesota Steelheader , the season is CHANGING! In a sure sign of spring, an enormous tom turkey sporting a brilliant red, white, and blue head tried to kamikaze my car as I was driving to work this week. I slammed on the brakes and honked, he just puffed up and yelled at me from the middle of the road, well, triple-gobbled anyway, but it amounts to the same thing. The chickadees and cardinals are singing their spring songs and sandhill cranes recently made a first appearance.     Where I am we've had a couple of uncomfortably warm days though full of welcome sunshine. This led to lots of running water and our street becoming a temporary lake due to a blocked storm drain. I got out the tamper-bar, chipped open the grate and watched a spectacular whirlpool develop. The neighbor kids were none to happy with me, my efforts had ruined their carefully constructed hydro-engineering project but when I pointed to the rapidly growing whirlpool, they rushed over a