Re: When it rains, it pours, when it doesn't...

**C* U* <c*@sbcglobal.net>**

This year in Chicago it seems the meteorologists have been more  
sensible about noting when we need rain (not that we need any right  
now!). But earlier this summer they would point it out. It always  
used to be that no rain was a cause for wild celebration as if the  
only thing that mattered was a sunny day at the beach.
Carolyn Ulrich
On Aug 22, 2007, at 12:02 AM, Yvonne Cunnington wrote:

> "N Sterman" <TalkingPoints@PlantSoup.Com wrote: re meeting in  
> Oklahoma:
>
>
> I'm wondering whether we are going to be flooded out of town  
> before  we even
> arrive!__________________________________________________________
>
> How ironic: here in southern Ontario, near Hamilton, we haven't seen a
> decent rainfall since mid-May. It sure tests your resolve to garden at
> all...I'm getting a bit depressed now. I've been moaning about the  
> drought
> on my blog all summer.
>
> I had an interesting comment on that the other day:
>
> Featured comment: T Gordon said...
>   Finally! The drought has made the evening news. Only because it  
> is the
> worst drought since 1959, so worth reporting. I feel some  
> validation. All
> summer I have been frustrated by the lack of acknowledgement of the  
> drought.
> Several times I have mentioned the drought only to have people say,  
> "Oh
> really?" If it were not for your blog, I might have thought I was  
> imagining
> it. It helped greatly to have it. Thanks!
> I wrote about this very thing in an earlier post: I guess it's just a
> reflection of how uninvolved most people are with growing things.
>
>
> Yvonne Cunnington
> http://countrygardener.blogspot.com
> www.flower-gardening-made-easy.com
>
>
>
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