As spring arrives, a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love. And our gravel roads all go to pot up here. The one I live on is still snow and ice covered because it hasn't been warm enough for it to all melt off, but once it does it'll turn into a nice muddy mess like the roads in southern Iowa. Especially this year, most of the gravel is gone from the roads just leaving dirt roadbeds.

It's bad enough right now that counties are starting to ask people to stay off the roads if they don't have to be on them.