MY WEEDS ARE WILTING!
\nDoes that give you an idea how bad things are here?
\nWe’re running sprinklers on the gardens at the front door and hand watering the herb garden and containers, but everything else is being left to the whim of the weather. I have some tall weeds at the edge of the grove to the north of the house, and yesterday I realized that the weeds are wilting. I have never seen weeds wilt before.
\nOn the news tonight, they announced that we are in the worst drought since 1988. In the period from March 16 to July 16, the Chicago area has received 9.09 inches of precipitation less than the norm. I suspect that our little area is further in the hole than that. We are just north of a freeway, and there is something about those ribbons of cement that detours the rain clouds.
\nI’m going to look up the instructions for rain dances, and encourage all my friends to pray for RAIN! Please! I need a week of gloomy, gray, drippy days. I promise I won’t complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MY WEEDS ARE WILTING! Does that give you an idea how bad things are here? We’re running sprinklers on the gardens at the front door and hand watering the herb garden and containers, but everything else is being left to … Continue reading