Wow, only 25 days. I wish the weather would start thinking "spring." There are so many tasks to attend to that just don't work well in snow. For one, I am really concerned about the flower beds and veggie garden. The landscape guys here are terrible and come into our patio areas only if there is grass to mow. They don't remove weeds and my neighbor has canada thistles that seed into my patio. (Last year, I went over and pulled them out.) My plan now is to put black plastic and bark mulch over everything that doesn't have perennials growing and hope for the best. First, the 2 feet of snow has to melt!
I've been trying to get visits to the dentist, doc, and eye doc. One down, two to go on that. Decided that my car shouldn't be sitting in the driveway for 5 months and hoping there is an available unit at my same, local place. More cash going there...sigh.
Trying to get in patrols at CVNP once a week to get hours in on our commitment there. It's been interesting to see parts of the park from a winter perspective. Last week, we saw the bald eagle pair that are preparing to nest. Our job is to keep people away from the restricted area so the eagles will stay. We heard that the rangers had to remove some uncooperative people last week who just "wanted to get closer to get a good picture." Yes, we get to deal with those self-serving types all the time. Fortunately, if they become confrontational, we just remove ourselves from the area and radio dispatch to send a law enforcement ranger .
