Spring. Yuck!

Oh you poor things. I'm almost in tears. Spring, how dreadful!

Here am I looking out the window to see the cherry trees turning to burning 
orange in the dulling morning's watery sun, and contemplating walking up 
the small hill to our growing houses where the first few hours work will be 
rather colder than both I and the plants really want. The condensation will 
stay on the plastic roof until the wind gets up (it stayed calm all day 
yesterday) and fingers will be too stiff for de anthering or pricking out for a 
couple of hours or so too.

Growth is slowing right up now and I see the cattle are chewing the 
paddock down after a summer of much rain and lank growth. Soon they 
will be churning up the mud as they seek out the last juicy feed in the 
boggy parts of the field. We have trouble with leaves too as they fall and 
block gutters and are swirled into piles by driving rain and fierce wind - on 
the days that aren't dead calm and foggy. This is the time when car 
batteries decide to remind us that they needed replacing last winter too, 
but we didn't did we? Because summer was close. Summer. What 
summer? At least double the normal rainfall and days so dull we could 
hardly see the book we had no time to read because it was spend digging 
drains for all that rain. Of course the rain had it's good points. Plants grew 
tremendously. Trees were especially rampant and produced possibly 
double their normal leaf count to add to the autumn trash which falls to the 
ground to hide the large, fat, slow bumble bee queens. You know, the ones 
that don't take too kindly to being squeezed by the unwary gardener 
cleaning up the litter.

Oh, and there's wood to chop and stack, and lawns to mow. You should 
see how lawns grow over here in the fall. In fact, just about all the year 
they will grow to tickle your knees inside a week. The mice are making 
mad suicidal dashes to hide in the house now the cooler weather is here 
too and the dogs just love to do likewise - and paddle mud all over the 
carpet.

But boy, it must be tough to have spring!

Terry Dowdeswell
692 Brunswick Road
RD1
Wanganui
New Zealand
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terry@delphinium.co.nz
http://www.delphinium.co.nz
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> Claire wrote:
> >Out there working, I am thinking that when I am charge of the
> >world, spring will be presented in a more orderly fashion.
> 
> Welcome to the midwest spring!  And I'll be happy when your
> turn comes to be in charge - it'll be much easier on all of
> us.
> 
> ++++++++++++
> Pat Mitchell
> corgilover@wi.rr.com
> zone 5 - SE WI - s'posed to be 80 degrees today (but
> remember 11 years ago when we had 6 inches of snow on May
> 10th???)
> 
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