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| NEGATIVE MPG? |
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| TIMOTHY POLLEN |
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| MAYBE |
Friday, 8:00 AM. 72 degrees F, wind WNW, light to calm, humidity 70%. The sky is darkly overcast and the barometer is down but I doubt it is going to rain this morning. We need rain, the raspberries are suddenly ripening and they will be very small if they don’t get moisture.
On the Fourth this caravan was parked in front of the Ace Hardware store in town. Huge bus/RV, pulling a full size pickup with an ATV in its bed. I found out later it was part of the entourage of entertainer Glen Campbell, who was performing at the Big Top. Anyway, I wonder if there is such a thing as negative gas mileage.
Yesterday was another hot one, and today may not be much different. Mornings and evenings are pleasant, but mid-day heat discourages serious garden or other outdoor work unless it is absolutely necessary or pays well.
My watering eyes usually are back to normal after the pines stop shedding their pollen, but this summer of lush growth seems to give me no respite, the wind-blown pollen of grasses now evidently being the culprit, as evidenced by the photo of the flower head of Timothy, an almost omnipresent species escaped from the hayfields. That’s how “hay fever” got its name.
Political commentary: pundits and even the presidential candidates themselves keep tripping over the semantics of Obamacare, and whether it represents a tax or a penalty, or both, or whatever. As a hoticulturist, I can probably get away with saying, “a rose is a rose is a rose,” and "a tax is a tax is a tax."
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