Sherwood's Almanac

Week starting 6 December 2009

Holidays

Just got back from holidays. Saw friends in Vancouver, spent American Thanksgiving with my sister on Orcas Island, visited my aunt Jeannette and uncle Bill near Yakima, spend a couple days with Laura's brother Jamie and family in Clarkston Washinton, then home. Not quite two weeks, and we missed all the bad weather traveling.

The Christmas Tree experiment seems to be working like gang busters. Lots of calls while we were on holiday. Lots of calls on the answering machine when we got home.

A Sherwood's Forest Tree

Gotta use our own product. In a wind or stray moose, a scots pine in our yard had the top 6 feet broken off. So I brought it in to use as our tree. Must have happened a while ago, the needles were already a bit stiffer than normal. Anyway, we'll keep it set up until needles drop. I want to see how long a scots pine keeps. If they are good keepers, then I can start selling them earlier.

Christmas Presents

Laura and I decided that it is so easy to get wrapped up in what to give each other that we wouldn't do it this year. At least not at Christmas. Her birthday is at the end of January. So we will do a modest exchange then.

Hot November

According to PFRA's Drought Watch web site November was over 5 degrees warmer than average for almost all of the prairies. No wonder I was planting up to the day I left on holiday.

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