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  Spring is here, that season when gnomes come out of winter hiding and show up on garden pathways across the Northern Hemisphere.
  So that you don't miss a single little person who may be lurking on your lawn, Heidi, the gnomesense.com business director,
  has assembled a list of where to look for gnomes this spring:

• Let's face it, many gnomes are lazy. They like to do as little work as possible and then take a good, long nap. Their favorite places to nod off are wheelbarrows and overturned watering cans. In fact, yesterday, I found four gnomes snuggled up under a rusted wheelbarrow in my backyard. Checkout your garden equipment, & have a camera ready!
• Gnomes who have been sleeping all winter are hungry when they wake up. Good spots to see sleepy-eyed gnomes are bird feeders, where they'll be scrambling for seeds, and dog-chow dishes, where they'll pilfer a few kibbles while Rover is chasing a squirrel. If you think it's the birds or your mutt who has the hearty appetite, think again.
• Most people think gnomes are stick-in-the-muds when it comes to fashion - they've been wearing boots and red hats for centuries with never a thought to updating their wardrobe. Nothing is further from the truth.
• In a 2007 study by Drs. Hans Johannson and Sven Peterson from the Gnomology Department of the University of Sweden,
  it was found that gnomes spend a full 70 percent of their dream time in high-end boutiques and trendy clothing stores, looking
  for a new look. When they awake from their winter slumbers, the first things they often spy are brightly colored spring shirts, skirts, and scarves fluttering in a gentle spring breeze on an unsuspecting human's clothesline. So, if some of your duds are missing from your line, you can be sure gnomes are to blame. They probably took your pink party dress and cut it into a hundred pieces to make spiffy pants they wear only in secret ceremonies held in nearby dales and glens. Best to use a dryer during the spring months.

Have fun with the wee creatures and don't get too upset with their thievery.
  They have more "fluid" notions of ownership than we do—a topic for another post.