OMG!

Did you hear, did you SMELL what just came out of Simon the Lab? It was HORRIBLE! HOOOOOOORRRRRIBLE!

Being furloughed is exhausting.

A bird

Furloughed and Snowed In

So, our elected leaders in Congress have chosen to send us home. Okay, fine, but couldn't they have waited until the weather was nicer? I mean, really. If I am going to go home on an unpaid vacation the last thing I want to do is cut and drag branches all day long (with no power to run my *electric* chainsaw, thank you very much).

Yes, that is my truck. Ugh/

Neighbor's tree in our backyard (downed power lines and all).

That's the tree. Half of it is in the yard.

That is not a bush in front of my truck. It's a pile of cottonwood branches.

So really, Congress. Next time a little better planning, please?