The USA is really taking the heat. Only this time literally. We have heat advisories again for today, and thunderstorms predicted for perhaps tomorrow. Until then I am staying in again, my children are encouraged to take it easy…Read, watch a film, anything but get overheated outside. And we put up the mister we bought. […]
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July has its own poetry
We go in withering JulyTo ply the hard incessant hoe;Panting beneath the brazen skyWe sweat and grumble, but we go. -Ruth Pitter, 1897-1992, The Diehards, 1941 Technorati Tags: summer poetry, Ruth Pitter
July Problems
With all the rain, and believe me I am so grateful that I don’t live in the areas prone to flooding, which have been under watch while more rain just keeps coming my ground is soggy. Truth be told, everything is damp and clammy. And the creepy crawlies are emerging.Earwigs… those horrors of the night… […]
The Garden In July
This year things are all backwards, which I guess goes with a weather pattern that gave me spring in January! But only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the height of heat, but mad Midwestern women actually try to start their weeding campaign at this season. Count me in. I managed to work in […]
Fine Summer Days
You couldn’t ask for more beautiful weather than we’ve been having. It forced me, forced me I tell you, to go to buy all the flowers that I had decided against because the planting conditions had been so poor. Then I worked till me bones ached and me back gave out. As soon as I […]
