Sam and I bought ice cream today in Akhalkalaki! If there's a surer sign of spring, I don't want to know what it is. More than robins, ice cream is a marker here of the approach of warmer weather, since most folks swear that eating ice cream when it's cold will bring certain death by cold, flu or other ailments. It was heartbreaking when, in late fall, all the ice cream freezers in town started to disappear from sidewalks, and stores cleared out their ice cream stocks to make way for frozen chickens.
I noticed the appearance of the first street-side ice cream freezer yesterday and sent Sam the following text: "Ice cream! :) It's spring!!!" Five minutes later, though, I had to send this follow-up text: "Well, strike the spring part. Now it's snowing. At least there's still ice cream!"
But the snow and ice are melting and the ice cream vendors can't be wrong. Before long, we'll be out of our sweaters and long underwear and on to less bulky clothing choices!
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Yea, Spring. Of course, it's snowed the past 2 days here so maybe spring is on strike or something!
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