I just heard on the radio that a town to the east has 8" of new snow and it is still snowing. Up north, there are winter storm warnings and snow. Cold air is moving down and it will cool off tonight. I hope it doesn't frost. I think the greenhouses will be fine, but the garden outside may be in danger. Quite late for this cold, but not records. Global warming, I guess. There may be new snow on the mountains, but I doubt it will snow down here. It is 54 F. here at the moment, but the sun is coming out at intervals.
My husband's work schedule is 15 hours per day including travel... he's one of the bosses in probably the most well known ''company'' in the UK... he works usually up to 80 hours per week...that includes some Saturdays and Sundays too when necessary, and also often he has to work away for a week or 2 at a time in another part of the country or overseas.. ..Once he was in Canada working for 6 months!!...Canada is an 11 hour flight from London so he couldn't come home at weekends.. He's never worked a 40 hour week in his life...since he left school he's worked for the same Company and many of it's subsidiaries... Up until I retired last summer, I worked a 10 hour day.. including every other Saturday.... so no 40 hour weeks' for me either... My husband is still in his 50's and has no intention of retiring... probably ever as long as his health is good he will continue to work until he drops, but probably once he gets in to his 60's he'll cut back his hours a little bit. The fact he works such long hours, means that our Vacation time is very precious to us... My daughter works 7 days a week from 6am 'till 10pm... Our family has a very strong work ethic!!
True (in red), but those working hours are way, way too much for me or my wife. We do many, many, many things together and could never do those things if she had to work them kind of hours. But, at age 70, she couldn't do it anyway. Then again, we do ok financially with her full-time/40 hour a week job and both of us getting SS in. Unfortunately, that "ok financially" will definitely drop when we move.
Good evening to you all from a wet Pereslavl-Zalessky, we arrived in the early afternoon after a 9 hour journey, by train and bus, our host picked us up from the station and brought us to a lovely new split level studio, one of four created after restoring a 100 year old wooden house. The interior decor of the one we are in is based on a sea theme, very similar to what I would like to create in the other room at Lisa's dacha. We have walked around the town and had dinner at a restaurant run by a family from Azerbaijan, the decor was pretty tacky but the food was excellent, we both had a pork cutlet stuffed with mushrooms, walnuts and prunes. I have posted a few pics from Lisa's room in the dacha, which apart from the floor and some of the ceiling needing a repaint, is finished. My room waiting for refurbishment... A couple of pics just taken in the old town here, the Kremlin is a larger area than the one in Moscow, but little is left of it apart from some 12/13th century churches and monasteries. Part of the National Russia day celebrations.... The dinner..... The back of the menu has a page of fines for misbehaviour ....... such as 50 roubles (80 cents) a word for swearing, 400 Roubles for breaking a table, and various amounts for dancing on the table, breaking a plate etc etc...... We have come across this list of fines at a few restaurants in small provincial towns on several occasions recently, I am not sure how many fines are enforced, or does it deter people anyway I hope your week is going well, I am off to bed to catch up with some sleep now....
I understand that, but the CIA here is referred to as "The Company". I was referring to the analogy. I thought "Gee, a Princess born in a castle, married to James Bond! Can't get much better than that!!!"
How you find the energy for all that and travelling so much @Terry Page , I'll never know... but good job on the Dascha , you've improved Lisa's room by 100%...now you gotta do your room, to bring it up to match...