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Monday, February 28, 2005
Splish, Splash
My tubs of blue and white pansies are stiiiiill doing well. They bloomed all winter. Since planted last fall, they have only had to be watered twice. Rain, rain, rain... particularly the last couple of weeks. We have not experienced a winter like the ones I was used to up north. However, we've had -plenty of chilly, rainy days and I'm tired of them. This morning I did the usual Monday A.M. things: vacuumed, loaded/unloaded/folded laundry, cleaned up the kitchen, and bundled weekend newspapers for the recycle bin. The papers still sit by the door. Too sloppy and wet to go out by the garage. Very ungrateful of me to resent this fairly mild weather
considering that right now in Michigan is still winter up north...and I'm not there. However, I'm tired of the rain. I want sunshine and warmth so that I feel like going out to plant seeds and set out flats of flowers. A few more days of this rain and I might require an ark. Yes, this is pretty flat coastal territory, but with all the rain, the streets have been running full of water.
I have begun to take seriously claims that polar ice melt may inundate places like Norfolk. This winter scientists who make their lives miserable roosting at the South Pole have seen bare ground where previously never before imagined. This has been summer down there below the Equator and it has been a remarkably warm one. All the melted ice has to go somewhere and no doubt is even as I type, creeping up from Chesepeake Bay to create an extension of the Intracoastal Waterway on 38TH Street.
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