It seems I’ve been waiting forever(!) to post this. I won’t comment further on the weather this year as it seems everyone north of Orlando has enjoyed the same crappy spring and there really is nothing more to be said about that.
Suffice it to say that in the last 5 years my latest (until now) first ride was April 13 (5 weeks ago), and the earliest was March 18 (two months ago).
But today the weather and my schedule cooperated just long enough for me to take a not-so-quick trip to Timmie’s for a coffee and a doughnut. 
The nearest Tim Horton’s is about 35 kilometres away but that’s really too close to enjoy much two-wheel time. So instead I went the l-o-n-g way round and posted a nice first ride distance of 130 kilometres.
A Tim’s coffee never tasted so good.