Oh, I haven't given up, but I have been real busy. I have to make a trip to Carson City on Wednesday to appear at the Commission on Economic Development, and then participate in a panel discussion on "Water and Its Impact on Economic Development" at the Rural Nevada Water Association meeting at the Silver Legacy in Reno on Thursday afternoon. So needless to say, I've been trying to learn something about economic development and something about water for the past couple of weeks....

The tulips are coming up though the decorative rock again, and the daffodils are blooming in the backyard. For a week or so it looked like summer was on the way, but the last couple of days remind us that it's still spring. We had heavy sleet at times, then sunshine, then sleet again with thunder.