I’m having an issue
with God today.
My irises are beautiful, my columbine are flowering like gangbusters, the creeping phlox has never looked better, and my double-flowering crab is so covered with blossoms one can scarcely see any leaves. I planted most of the vegetable garden last week, squash and all, AND. IT'S. SNOWING. TO-DAY!
My irises are beautiful, my columbine are flowering like gangbusters, the creeping phlox has never looked better, and my double-flowering crab is so covered with blossoms one can scarcely see any leaves. I planted most of the vegetable garden last week, squash and all, AND. IT'S. SNOWING. TO-DAY!
Have Your angels been
dipping in the sauce behind Your back?
Did the head of Your
weather department develop Alzheimer’s when You weren’t looking?
I’ll bet it’s those cherubs,
playing tricks again. The little scoundrels!
Respectfully speaking,
Sir, you need to give someone a talking to.
We had weather like
this in Jackson Hole where I grew up. Two inches of snow on June 18 in—when was
it—the mid seventies? Snow on the fourth of July when I was a kid. Snow in
August, occasionally, and almost always snow on the high peaks each Labor Day.
Ok, so crap happens in
Jackson Hole. Accept that and if you don’t like it, move on.
I didn’t like it and I
went south. I did my part, God. So why am I seeing this unmentionable white
stuff all over my lawn?
And don’t even tell me
snow is ‘soft white crystalline flakes’. I don’t care. It’s COLD, for Pete’s
sakes, and that takes any loveliness it might have ever thought of having and
flings it right out the window!
Don’t give me a
scientific explanation about how the ‘upper atmospheric conditions’ got out of
control and the rain we were scheduled for was ‘run through a deepfreeze on the
way down’, either. There’s a simple solution to all that.
Turn on the heat!
Then blow that upper-atmospheric deepfreeze back to the top of the Grand Teton where it came from, originally, and tie it down so it won’t escape again.
Turn on the heat!
Then blow that upper-atmospheric deepfreeze back to the top of the Grand Teton where it came from, originally, and tie it down so it won’t escape again.
Or, if you don’t like
my suggestions, think up some other brilliant solution to the problem we’re having
down here. I don’t care. Just do what You have to do and clear this mess up,
please. My sense of humor does not include admiring beautifully-shaped ice
crystals in May – or June, July, August, September or October, either, for that
matter. These are the months for gentle warmth—please note the stress
on gentle, there—, and for green growing things,
backyard barbecues and tanning on the trampoline. That’s a little hard to pull
off when there’s a freakin’ blizzard going
on outside.
So, quick!, tie up those
cherubs, replace that Alzheimer’s angel with a seraph who can think straight, and lock up the sauce. Snow in summer
belongs in Jackson Hole. Let’s keep it there!
Yep, I'm with you. Snow in late May? Not having it! *grumble grumble* I already planted my tomatoes!
ReplyDeleteI bet my kids would love that, but I'd be rather miffed if all those vegetables my wife made me build boxes for got frosted to death.
ReplyDeleteLet me know if that open letter to the Almighty thing works. If it does, I've a few I could write.... :)
Hey, Simon, by the time the day was over, the snow was gone and the warmth I wanted had started to wander my way. It's still in the wandering stage but I actually got quite warm in my long-sleeved shirt while pulling 18" grassers from my flower bed today - so go ahead and try my methods. Just be careful what you ask for. Sometimes you get exactly what you think you want. ;=)
ReplyDeleteBTW - excellent post you put up this weekend. I'm thinking the theme song for Somewhere In Time was by that composer - and I'm not even going to try to remember how to spell his name right now. Anyhow, have you seen that movie? Starred Christopher Reeve and Jayne Seymore. Good flick.
Good luck on your veggies. Grow boxes can give wonderful results.