Home after a relatively easy weekend at the hospital. Some light sprinkles today, but the roads were mostly dry on the way home. More rain coming during the next week. Harvests seem to all be completed. Lots of fields have been cleaned up and prepared for planting something or other. Some fields have been planted--they are being irrigated (by sprinklers) and some are coming up green (some sort of grain, I expect). I saw a surprising number of grape vines torn out; maybe they are going to be replaced with almonds. Many (certainly not all) of the local farmers seem to chase after whatever happens to bring the most money, although with "permanent" crops like vines or orchards the initial expense and lead time are so long I should think patience would be advised. Each fashionable thing in turn seems to be overplanted and then prices fall. But of course "this time it's different." The tax code gives preferential treatment to newly planted trees and vines, and some corporate or investor farmers might be planning to farm the agricultural real estate market in addition to the tax code; it's been known to happen.
Here's [Click] the input of Jeff Adachi (the San Francisco Public Defender, for whom I have a lot of respect) on the Ferguson Mo. grand jury proceedings.
--Alan
Thanks for the mincemeat recipe, puddle. I will have to file that away for future reference.
Word is that the factory where Penny provides after-hours coverage will be shut down for the entire week between Christmas and New Years. That means she and her one coworker will each be working 12 hours every day.
She has also heard that the coworker who was briefly hospitalized had seemed confused before he went in and also in telephone conversations since. That seems to imply he won't be coming back until the doctors figure out what's wrong and fix it, if that's possible. I've heard the word "Alzheimer's", but that doesn't seem to fit the apparently rapid onset.
When Howard finds his T, he's definitely Firs!!
ReplyDeleteLovely photo.
ReplyDeleteToday is St. Andrew's Day.
Home after a relatively easy weekend at the hospital. Some light sprinkles today, but the roads were mostly dry on the way home. More rain coming during the next week. Harvests seem to all be completed. Lots of fields have been cleaned up and prepared for planting something or other. Some fields have been planted--they are being irrigated (by sprinklers) and some are coming up green (some sort of grain, I expect). I saw a surprising number of grape vines torn out; maybe they are going to be replaced with almonds. Many (certainly not all) of the local farmers seem to chase after whatever happens to bring the most money, although with "permanent" crops like vines or orchards the initial expense and lead time are so long I should think patience would be advised. Each fashionable thing in turn seems to be overplanted and then prices fall. But of course "this time it's different." The tax code gives preferential treatment to newly planted trees and vines, and some corporate or investor farmers might be planning to farm the agricultural real estate market in addition to the tax code; it's been known to happen.
ReplyDeleteHere's [Click] the input of Jeff Adachi (the San Francisco Public Defender, for whom I have a lot of respect) on the Ferguson Mo. grand jury proceedings.
--Alan
Thanks for the mincemeat recipe, puddle. I will have to file that away for future reference.
Very interesting article, Alan. Thank-you.
DeleteMah*Sweetie sure doesn't think much of that prosecutor either.
Talk about conflict of interest!
Sis saw the photo and spontaneously declared it very pretty.
ReplyDeleteThanks Cat, and to Sis also! :-)
DeleteSunday was also the birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomery and Mark Twain.
Saturday was the birthday of Madeleine L'Engle, C.S. Lewis and Louisa May Alcott.
Word is that the factory where Penny provides after-hours coverage will be shut down for the entire week between Christmas and New Years. That means she and her one coworker will each be working 12 hours every day.
ReplyDeleteShe has also heard that the coworker who was briefly hospitalized had seemed confused before he went in and also in telephone conversations since. That seems to imply he won't be coming back until the doctors figure out what's wrong and fix it, if that's possible. I've heard the word "Alzheimer's", but that doesn't seem to fit the apparently rapid onset.