I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m getting real tired of the weather this winter.

I’m also not real happy with the forecasts that have come from the National Weather Service and weathermen and weatherwomen on television.

Let’s just take Wednesday, for instance. Predictions of 2 to 6 inches of snow or more for Monday and Tuesday fell well short, but we had plenty of ice to go around.

On Wednesay morning, I watched  a forecaster who said the storm had moved out of the area and was well on its way to the east coast. It then proceeded to snow that morning in Seymour.

I know that predicting the weather is never an easy task, but I’d be happy to see a weather forecast that was even 50 percent correct. Or even 25 percent right.

We sure haven’t had many of those this winter.

I do know that spring can’t be far off, but I’m not relying on any weather forecast for that prediction.

For one thing, the sand hill cranes up recently took up residence in the Slab Road area west of Brownstown and in other parts bottom lands in the county, including one just northwest of Seymour. The county is a real good spot for the birds to take a break while preparing to migrate even further north when temperatures start rising.

If you’ve never seen North America’s largest crane, I recommend doing so. You can see 1,000s of them in once place, and they make enough noise that I can hear them more than a mile away outside my home in Ewing.

At least someone can get the weather right.