It really was up and down today.
On the up side I found lamb. Actually Whole Foods did the finding and I was finally able to order some. It was a very odd situation there for awhile, because I had a fear that other shortages would be coming. You know, today lamb, tomorrow toilet paper.
On the downside, it really does look like the northeast may be hit with another snowstorm–possibly a substantial one. I sincerely hope not. Enough is enough, already.
And the big downside was having to read about the Oregon Dems refusing to protect the infants that survive abortion. Truly, what is wrong with those people? Are they people?
And the other upside is–the ants are really subsiding. I will replace the trap tomorrow as it has been a few days.
God bless everybody.
Patty
Some victories to claim. 🙂 Good news on the lamb. I agree, I have more concerns about shortages than I ever did in the past.
Likewise, the ant situation is good news. Out insect problems in Arizona are not trivial, and exterminators do quite a business. I’ve used Terro for years, and it works well. The big red ants are a tough case, but they stay away from the house. The problem are smaller ants, which occasionally appear in the kitchen, but one Terro wipes them out and most years, I only have to use it once per year.
Let’s hope that’s the case.
… As to the Oregon thing, sad, but not surprising.
Weather? It’s strange. Everyone is talking about the warmer and drier than usual winter in the southwest, but apparently Tucson didn’t get the memo, because our cool weather started early last autumn and has persisted longer than I would have expected. Likewise, this is the rainiest winter I’ve ever seen in these parts.
Our cool weather started early last year too. I remember saying to Lee that the winter would be early and hard. Well, that turned out to be true.
Strange, but probably the result of a shifted jet stream. In early 1977, we had a brutal winter in the midwest but in Colorado, there was virtually no snow in the Rockies, which harmed the ski areas that winter, but also reduced water coming downstream when the winter snows melted.
As I recall 1977 was a rough winter here in New Jersey, too. Lee and I were dating at the time and I remember going to New York to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and the snow was piled up all over the place.
The eastern half of the nation got walloped, that year. I was never so glad to see spring arrive.
Our Springlike weather has come to end here in Arkansas as it is back to freezing overnight and only in the 50’s range. Glad we didn’t plant any bulbs yet.
Yep, it’s not over yet. We are supposed to get more snow over the weekend. I would like spring to come pretty soon.
Also we are getting another storm this weekend. Yikes.