How a soferet knows it's spring...

[hatam_soferet]

When it starts getting warmer, one's parchment wakes up and remembers what it used to be. You can tell it's a hot day when it stops lying nice and flat, and starts trying to go back to being a cow.

Certainly keeps life interesting. And besides, it's another of those powerful reminders that like it or no, rabbinic Jews are part of a world where people use animals for their own ends - and that that has implications.