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April is finally over and aren’t we glad. Its not just that we have to turn over so much of our hard-earned money to the clowns in the District of Columbia, but the weather is one day pleasant and the next day unpleasant. As the weather warms the weeds kick into high gear and take advantage of not just the pleasant days but in their contrariness keep right on growing through the wind, cold and especially rain so that when the weather finally clears one is just that much farther behind. There’s no way to keep up.
We wound up the month above average in moisture thanks to a late snow storm that gave us over an inch of moisture. Kari, Abigail and I drove through that storm on our way to Albuquerque for a volleyball tournament. That was a Friday evening and it wasn’t much fun to dodge the trucks on I-40 in the dark and snow but we managed to not get mashed. There was no snow accumulation in Albuquerque and what fell on SA was gone by the time we got home Sunday afternoon.
There had been high winds in Amarillo that day but even that had died down by late afternoon but not before taking down half of the the ornamental pear in the front yard of 2005 plus a few minor limbs here and there around the place. I spent that following Monday cutting up and hauling off the downed portion of the pear tree and the miscellaneous limbs which was not only hard work but put me just that much farther behind on the rest of the place. Oh well.
