In our view, Pfizer is in fact defensive and has demonstrated that it can weather the blows in a measured fashion due to its dramatic scale advantage and strong balance sheet.

Is there concern? Tremendous. We rise and fall depending on the weather.

Our community very much loves to see the local looper that allows them to see how weather patterns are traversing across their area.

It?s starting about on time. Last year, we had a lot of cold weather. It started about three weeks later in the southern part of the state. The season was quite short.

So many things can interfere. You have to allow for weather and the availability of your workers as well as city code inspectors — who have all been very helpful and fair, by the way.

The competition was perfect for us. The weather was a mixed bag of rain, wind, sometimes warm, sometimes cool - kind of like Rochester!