Sweet jeebus it's cold in Idaho this weekend
Last week we had high temps hovering around 80, so I thought it was perfectly safe to put my tomatoes outside. The last day of frost in Tater Tot Idaho is May 10th, and should be safe to put the garden in. I started working on that this week, then actually got to work for 4 days, yeehah! Unfortunately the weather turned colder and wetter, which meant no more garden work. I looked forward to the weekend hoping it would be dry so I could finish the garden.
No such luck.
Yesterday I woke up to rain ... and snow. Temperatures struggled to get above 40 and I stared at my tomato and pepper plants hoping they would be alright. They don't like being outdoors if it gets below 50 degrees.
Now I have to wait until it warms up and dries out before I can get finish putting the garden in. It will, this is Idaho after all and in about a month it will be 100 degrees in the shade. Just a very cold start to the growing season so far. Bleh.
So yeah, while I had a reason to get out of bed this week the state of Texass approved their crazy revisionist changes to the social studies curriculum. Texas students are now required to learn fiction like we're a Christian nation (no we're not), Thomas Jefferson, a founding father and author of the Declaration of Independence is too unAmerican to be mentioned, and Ronald Reagan is completely fictionalized to be made out as some kind of American hero ... Even those final years when his brain was too racked with Alzheimer's to run his office and Bush Sr. was running things for him.
I know I already ranted about the new social studies curriculum, but dammit it's important because 1) I'm a certified social studies teacher and 2) school children in Texass are being taught lies. The best thing to do is pull your kids out of Texas public schools and home school them, so your kids aren't indoctrinated into thinking we live in a Christian nation, that founding fathers are too unAmerican to be mentioned, that Senator McCarthy was right about all those commies in the government, and Ronald Reagan was the second coming of Jeebus.
If they're printing it in Texas school books, this garbage may be coming to a school in your state soon. All-powerful space alien in the sky, please protect us from your followers.
No such luck.
Yesterday I woke up to rain ... and snow. Temperatures struggled to get above 40 and I stared at my tomato and pepper plants hoping they would be alright. They don't like being outdoors if it gets below 50 degrees.
Now I have to wait until it warms up and dries out before I can get finish putting the garden in. It will, this is Idaho after all and in about a month it will be 100 degrees in the shade. Just a very cold start to the growing season so far. Bleh.
So yeah, while I had a reason to get out of bed this week the state of Texass approved their crazy revisionist changes to the social studies curriculum. Texas students are now required to learn fiction like we're a Christian nation (no we're not), Thomas Jefferson, a founding father and author of the Declaration of Independence is too unAmerican to be mentioned, and Ronald Reagan is completely fictionalized to be made out as some kind of American hero ... Even those final years when his brain was too racked with Alzheimer's to run his office and Bush Sr. was running things for him.
I know I already ranted about the new social studies curriculum, but dammit it's important because 1) I'm a certified social studies teacher and 2) school children in Texass are being taught lies. The best thing to do is pull your kids out of Texas public schools and home school them, so your kids aren't indoctrinated into thinking we live in a Christian nation, that founding fathers are too unAmerican to be mentioned, that Senator McCarthy was right about all those commies in the government, and Ronald Reagan was the second coming of Jeebus.
If they're printing it in Texas school books, this garbage may be coming to a school in your state soon. All-powerful space alien in the sky, please protect us from your followers.