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.

Every corner of the sky awkwardly showed up wearing the exact same thing, a moody gray dress accessorized with flat clouds. If North, South, East, and West were drag queens, this would be bad, very bad.

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.

There was a steam engine running the mill, and they would blow it to call the workers at 8:30 a.m. and at 5 p.m. to tell them it was time to go home. You could hear the whistle all over town. The offices are still there, and the big sheds where they stored the lumber.

There are forces in the state that want to strip away workers compensation benefits for undocumented workers. Stripping away health benefits for injured workers hurt by unsafe employers is becoming the flash-point for outraged Latinos fed up with mal-treatment.

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.