Springing

18 Feb 20

15:00 hrs

     Yes, spring is coming fast to the Valley. The days are longer. I can tell because the solar rope lights on the gazebo covering the Flame Pit stay on longer in the evening. I noticed that the rope light wrapped around the palm tree at the front of the Wayward Inn is no longer functioning and it will have to be replaced. The amount of daily precipitation has dropped considerably in the last week or so which is making me happy. Rain is one thing deluge is another. Pretty soon I'll be cutting the lawn. My Lobster and I have done some pre-spring basics - deadheading some plants and pruning others. I have pruned the apple tree, the blueberry and Saskatoon berry bushes. My hope is that the Saskatoon berry bushes really start to produce this year. In my opinion Saskatoon berries are superior to blueberries. A friend of mine and former co-worker, Mean Jean, lives here in the Valley. She is from a small town on the Wide Open Prairie and knows the value of a Saskatoon berry and she has a number of Saskatoon berry trees in her yard. Lucky her.

     Some interesting movies on Netflix. Coach Carter, Red Sparrow, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I watch them in the mornings before going to work because in the evenings its Spin the Wheel time. 

19 Feb 20

07:00 hrs

     It's another frosty morning here in the Valley. 

21:00 hrs

     It's pure torture. Please put me out of my misery. The Masked Singer? I swear it's just an excuse to bring the furry deviants to the forefront. 

20 Feb 20

06:15 hrs

     Things are certainly coming to a head when it comes to budget restraints. In a small town in a small state in the Hugh-ess the town council voted to shutter the police department. There was only one police officer on the force and he had served the town for twenty years. The council ordered that the department be closed and that all materials belonging to or representing the department be returned immediately. The officer, who was sitting in the meeting, stood up and stripped to his underwear before walking out of the meeting. Why not? He was fired and with not other serving officers there was no one to arrest him for public indecency. 

     Do you think I would do any different?

     Rail blockades have been taking place across the Great White North over the construction of gas lines through First Nations land. Now the elected Band Councils had approved the construction but the Hereditary Chiefs said no way. Then the blockades went up and the cops were called and the protesters started marching and our PM was glad handing in The Desert.