“The RoseBouquet”

People around here are getting a little tired of all this rain we’ve been having in June. When I have an opportunity, I explain it this way; remember all that fog we had in January and February? Well, my Mom used to say that if you count 100 days forward from a foggy day, you will have rain on that 100th day. I recall thinking during our winter, “Boy, we are going to have one wet June this year!” So it is!

Mom also used to say that when the New Moon comes the weather will change. I should be tracking this on a calendar, but when I take time to notice, I do see that if we’ve been having a cold spell, or a hot one, or whatever, on the date that the calendar shows a new moon, or close to it, our weather spells takes a turn for something else.

So minor weather prophet that I am I predict that this coming Sunday the sun will come out for our Sunday School picnic, and a hot summer will finally begin!

How about you? Have you got little weather-predicting guides like that too? Perhaps handed down from earlier generations?

Meantime, besides bailing water out of our potato storage pit in the basement, we are rejoicing at how good our garden looks. We’re eating radishes and lettuce and green onions already! When we can tiptoe through the mud to reach them.