We finished pruning the apple trees. No snow yet, but it was starting to rain just as we were finishing up.

I at least got started on the pruning before the rain hit. The shower's over now, but I don't trust it. Plus, now I'm wiped out, so I don't have energy to do any of the inside work that needs to be done.

All the way home, I was planning to prune the apple trees, or at least get started. It's decent weather and I actually got home when I was supposed to instead of hours later. However, my house is very cold at the moment, and I now feel like bundling up with a hot cup of chocolate instead of performing manual labor.

I'll prune tomorrow.

Honestly, even if they do strike, regardless of whether or not they should, can anybody expect to win when they're pulling this crap?

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998313.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

The ground's frozen and we're getting corn snow mixed with frozen rain. Whatever it is, it's sticking.

It's that time of year again, so I've been looking through my seeds and thumbing through the catalogs. Instead of just tossing the seed that I don't want, though, I thought a seed swap would be more fun. Let me know if you have something you would like to trade ( Read more... )

With any luck, we won't have a strike after all.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117997749.html?categoryid=10&cs=1&p=0

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b74641_sag_postpones_strike_vote.html

School is canceled!

Best reason of the week: As we were leaving school yesterday, one of my students said we shouldn't have school today so that the week would be symmetrical.

Monday: No school
Tuesday: 2 hours late
Wednesday: On time
Thursday: 2 hours late
Friday: No school

Snow is on the ground, in Raymond at least, but so far school's only 2 hours late. However, Hoquiam's forecast has changed from clear and cold to 60% chance of snow today. Please let us be sent home early with no school tomorrow. With all the short days or no days this week nobody is in the mood to work anyway.