It's an ongoing situation that gets worse in late winter and early spring. We monitor beaver activity so that dams do not pose any safety problems.

After the Democratic nominee is all but certain in the late winter/early spring, it would not be surprising for us to fall behind for a bit,

Late winter, early spring, this is one of those phenomena you do see. It's usually in these types of fish.

It gets late early out there.

As we get toward the end of the winter season and early spring, we'll probably go through another wave of elevated energy prices, and it will bode ill for discretionary consumer spending. Consumer spending might be rather lackluster for some time, perhaps a year or two. In the end we're going to [see] a consumer that's saving more, is more cautious, and a little more spendthrift.

You don't know who he's gotten in since the spring or since two-a-days. It's an ongoing thing. You go with their philosophy and their scheme and prepare the best you can.