Ruth and I attended a wedding in Minneapolis yesterday, a
beautiful outdoor event at a golf course that needed no watering as this part
of the U.S. has gotten ample rains in the past few weeks, more than enough in
some places such as Duluth where 10 inches fell at one time caused havoc.
According
to the Minneapolis TV weather guy, that city set a record for rainfall
for the month of June. Contrast that
with Madison, WI where our home city is setting an opposite record—less than a
half-inch for June.
Driving
to the Twin Cities the other day, we could see the change from dry grass and
shriveled cornfields ending somewhere north of Black River Falls to a cornfield
near Eau Claire that was shoulder high and the darkest of dark green. Not so in southern Wisconsin where worries
mount for a failed, or at least a meager 2012 corn yield.
In
central Wisconsin, we have been on the margin.
Some rain, but not enough. I’m
afraid without watering, our garden, which has been off to a great start, would
whither away like the cornfields of southern Wisconsin.
THE OLD TIMER SAYS:
Few things are dependable in this world, especially so the weather.
CHECK
THIS OUT: My one day workshop: “Writing From Your Life,” October 13, 9-4. The
Clearing, Door County. For more information go to. http://theclearing.org/current/index.shtml
UPCOMING
EVENTS:
July 10, 7:00 p.m., Eagle River
Public Library, Garden Wisdom.
August
5-11, The Clearing. Writing Workshop:
Writing From Your Life.
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