Morning Sounds

It must be Spring as the magpies are back. For the past week, every morning those birds have caw, caw, cawed at exactly 5:30 a.m. Just enough noise to wake me up. Then, they are gone (thankfully), but now I am awake! I try to go back to sleep and once or twice I have for about 15 or 20 minutes but only after trying hard to do so.  My alarm is set to go off at 6:40 a.m. but I have been getting up before that since I am already awake.  This morning, for the first time, it was not the birds. It was the fire trucks going by with sirens ringing. Birds or bells, they both wake me up!! Oh yes, there is also the snow that melted and turned to ice which sounds like someone crunching wrapping paper when the vehicles drive over it. This sound belongs to the car of the paperboy (man) who drives into the cul de sac, drops off his newspapers and drives out. He only takes a moment, but the sound still wakes me up. Then again, it could just be that it is getting lighter out earlier as the sun rises and my 'internal clock' is waking me up and none of the above! Guess I can take my pick. Well, now that I am up, I might as well get ready for the day!