There’s a nice steady shower outside at 6am this morning. They said we might get a little bit of snow mixed it but it looks like all rain. I covered all the plants in the garden last night and took others in containers into the garage. Our storm is supposed to last until tomorrow afternoon. So far it doesn’t seem as bad as they made it out to be on the news, and we sure need the moisture after four days of 80 degree weather.
I’m trying to stay off politics for a while but it’s so hard when our President is already in campaign mode rather than trying to fix the economy. I guess it’s just the sign of the times but to me it seems most politicians are more interested in keeping their jobs than actually tackling any of the tough choices we need to make as a country. My mother in law (who I disagree with usually politically) said the other day that California is not going to get out of their mess until we raise taxes. Now I don’t necessarily agree with this premise (I’m more of a cut spending type guy) but at least she, who you all know is 80 years old, has the wisdom to suggest a “fix” that no politician in CA will take because it’s unpopular and will hurt their re-election chances. The point is, our elected officials need to make a choice, cut spending or raise taxes, your choice, pick one or the other but just do not sit there and do nothing. Ok, I’ll stop now, enough political musings for the day.
The misses just woke up and came down. We didn’t see each other much yesterday and today she works the late shift again, I think 2 until 9:45. It looks like her income is going to go down this summer as she’ll have to cut back her hours with the boys out of school. We’ve tried to find a solution but it doesn’t make much sense for her to work for $10 an hour and pay a babysitter $10 an hour. The littlest one had a great time at the zoo yesterday and the oldest passed 3 levels of music on the recorder. This is good and bad and he was very proud, as he should be, but then confided it me that it was easy and he didn’t even have to study! You get the point here, things comes too easy to him as he’s pretty smart. It would actually be good for him to fail now so he understands that everything in life won’t always come easy, better now than when he’s 20!
We had soccer practice last night and the boys scrimmaged the girls. They both practice next to each other on the same field and occasionally they play against each other. The oldest played really well and the boys pulled out a 3 to 2 victory. One of these days the girls are going to win one which will devastate the boys. The girls coach, who we know from school as she’s the librarian, told me the girls never play so hard as when they play the boys!
Well that’s about it, I have “Day in Denver” meeting tonight at school as I am the one (as Mom’s working) who will be joining the oldest on his field trip on the 20th. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do but I guess that’s why they have the meeting. So time to run as it’s fast approaching 7am and the kids will be up shortly. Of course we’ll need to wake them, Â otherwise they’d sleep right on through the morning. Looks like the rain has turned to a sleet now and it’s coming down pretty good, this is actually better as it’ll soak into the grass more, rather than just run off. Colorado in May, they say if you don’t like the weather, just wait 5 minutes and it’ll change, you gotta love it.
Have a great day and take care,
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