Fluffy and white

If the weather were a dog, FreddyC would be humping the hell out of it this morning.

The warm weather

has combined with the chili cheese coney with onions to stimulate unprecedented methane production.

Boy howdy

I'll tell ya, as much as people yap about how great a hot tub is in the snow, standing around all soaking wet while digging for the shock to throw in after you get out is a hell of a lot more pleasant when it's 50.

It snowed last night

It's trying to keep me from being able to sand the play structure.

It might rain Thursday

I can't remember the last time it rained.

Oh dear God

The Mrs. has declared that we will be making a road trip to Barfalo sometime this spring. 22 hours. And we actually debated whether we should stop and spend the night somewhere along the way.

Today's weather

Wind.

I had a buffalo burger for lunch. I'll be spending a lot of time out of the teepee tonight.

Obama

Rhymes with "your momma."

I almost went to the carwash

But then, when I was pumping gas, I noticed how windy it was. I hate going to the carwash when it's windy.

Heat and Snow

Yesterday, it got up to 74 degrees here. We spent a lot of the day doing yard work. There's a lot of cleanup that needs to be done each spring, trimming back all the dead stems and getting the remaining fall leaves out of the flower beds. I got out the leaf vacuum and sucked up a whole mess of leaves while The Mrs. trimmed the plants, but we filled up all the garbage before even doing 20% of the yard.

Our HOA has very picky rules about composts, so I haven't been allowed to replicate the grand composter I built at the previous house. I'll eventually do something, but for now, I am required to either throw my yard waste out with the trash or pay (pay!) a local dirt place to take them, turn them into compost, and then sell them to other people. I choose to landfill most of the yard waste in order to do my part for global warming.

My one exception is garden waste. I turn that back into the garden. I got out my piece of crap chipper/shredder and went to work on the garden. You have to feed the yard waste in very, very slowly or it jams. I jammed it 6 times in the hour and a half I used it before it got dark. Got through about 1/4 of the garden. Dried corn stalks were the most fun. The tomato plants were the least.

When I was at Sears, they had a gas-powered one on sale for about $700. I keep looking for one on Craigslist, but I never see a good deal. They're also pretty big, so I don't know where I'd keep it.

Today, it snowed.