Re: OT: Iris Blooms and Murhphy's Law
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- Subject: Re: OT: Iris Blooms and Murhphy's Law
- From: D* F* <d*@cornell.edu>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 06:18:12 -0600 (MDT)
At 05:30 PM 4/11/98 -0600, Irisborer wrote:
>Donald.... Loved this tale!!! In Western New York this is called "Iris
>Anxiety". When we worry about every single thing. I once wrote a poem about
>it, but I could never hope to find it now. I do remember it started:
>
>It's too cold,
>It's too hot,
>I KNOW I'm getting iris rot
>
>and so on.
IRIS ANXIETY
by Kathy Guest (AKA Irisborer)
It's too cold,
It's too hot
I KNOW I'm getting iris rot.
It's been too dry,
It's been too wet
I haven't sprayed for borer yet.
Feed in the spring? Feed in the fall?
My talls are too short, my dwarfs are too tall,
My labels are gone, my map is a mess
I could have done more, I should have done less...
I will worry and fret, every day, all the time
Then my irises bloom
And the garden's sublime!
--from ESIS Newsletter, Spring 1994
Compliments of
Dorothy Fingerhood
(Newfield, NY)
