Organically Inclined

I should look it up, but it seems that there has not been a dry day yet this summer here in Central Vermont! I have only taken the kids swimming twice at a friend’s pool - and we usually go to a nearby lake DAILY, and we haven’t been once. The temp has been 80 or lower and rain, rain, rain. And not like little showers - we’re talking heavy driving rain and huge claps of thunder and lightning. Scary stuff.

The ground is now so saturated that people are flooding in a lot of low-lying areas. Fortunately, this does not affect us too much. We sit high on a hill, but my garden is feeling the effects. It is so weedy! I just don’t want to spend hours out there in the pouring rain. I try to be very adventurous about it, but as soon as I hear thunder, I run inside! I’m terrified of thunder of lightning - always have been. We are actually very fortunate for the rain, also, because we have 30 foot dug well that supplies our family’s drinking and washing water.

There have been a few years where the well has gotten dangerously low and I would pray for a good rain. Not this year! We may not be able to swim at the lake - but Mama gets a shower everyday!

It’s strange though, because my husband reminded of “An Inconvenient Truth,” where Gore says that global

warming might not be felt as a massive heatwave for everyone - for some of us, we might be getting a new rain forest! I feel like I moved to Seattle.

Oh well, even if it’s a little water-logged, the broccoli is growing and the peas are still coming and the pumpkins are taking over!