I give up.
Still no rain. It started out nice this morning, cool and overcast. Getting hot already. It has been getting hotter and drier every year yet when we do get rain it is nuisance rain. During haying time it will rain just enough to prevent harvesting. I remember being a nervous wreck when I still made hay till it was put up and safe. Often I had to put salt on it to preserve it because it was not quite dry. It was like a heavy load was lifted. I avoided the coffee shop because you could cut the stress with a knife. I never heard the birds or smelt the flowers. My beautiful mountains were only for catching rain clouds.
Ah life is so much better now. But see, I'm still complaining. I mean sheet, I have sprinklers.
Puddy came with me to help me plant. I planted he rolled in it. There might be some bare spots. Thomas used to love smelly marigolds and roll on them. Fatten them out but they would bounce back.
Mosquitoes are starting now that there are no more cold nights to kill them. Only females bite and both live on pollen. Feed the humming birds, they also eat mosquitoes.
I have boxes out for house swallows. No purple martens this side of the Rocky's. Too bad really.
A trick for planting small seeds like carrots. Mix the seed with half a cup of clean fine sand and sprinkle it with a tea spoon in the rows. If you mix it well you have very little thinning to do. White sand works best, but don't use sugar or flour. It attracts bugs.
Tea break is over, time to go back to planting.
Davit.
PS Thomas would say as long as you have shelter and food the rest is just for enjoyment, like rolling in the Marigolds.
One should enjoy their garden.
