Cathy in the Wright

Spring Is In The House

Another great day at The Outpost. In fact, today captured what I feel is a perfect day, weatherwise. Cool enough to wear a sweatshirt yet warm enough to melt the Chapstick in your car when you park outside in the sun.

This is the kind of day that makes you itch to tackle outdoor projects, especially planting. You clean out the flower beds, you till the gardens, and some folks even get brave enough to start planting. When you plant in April around here, you are virtually guaranteed to have a May frost which will kill everything you lovingly put in, fertilized, and watered.

But then you get another nice day towards the end of May and your enthusiasm renews. And you spend another $200 at the garden center, only to have the second batch of plants and flowers destroyed in a severe thunderstorm in June.

A tornado in July finishes off batch three, and an August drought puts the dagger to batch four. September can bring your next frost, and you're left with a flower bed that looks much like it did in April. The only change is that your wallet is $850 lighter.

Ahhh, but on a perfect day like today who wants to look that far ahead. In another week or so tulips will be blooming, the larks will be singing hymns at heaven's gate (name that sonnet), and the ticks will be out in full force.

*sniff* God bless Minnesota.

Posted by Cathy at April 22, 2004 07:50 PM