On Monday we wore parkas, hats, and mitts, when taking a walk.
On Tuesday the temperature soared, so that Tuesday night we turned on the air conditioner. During the night there were heavy rains.
On Wednesday morning I arose early, opened the kitchen curtains to world transformed, the world had turned overnight, from brown and black and grey, into verdant green.
On Thursday, today, the temperature had dropped again to 6C, with a stiff wind, and out came the parkas, the hats, and the mitts once more.
It has been a long and interesting spring.
On Tuesday, the day of warmth, we had thought that we might visit the camp today, Thursday, and planned for it. But the weather changed our plans. We will go another day, when it is warmer, and sunnier.
Attila has completed the fourth raised bed, and the two small greenhouse frames that will sit in it. Soon he will begin to prepare the trays for seed starts.
The garden is showing off its stuff. The peas are over four inches high suddenly, the rows of spinach, beets, parsley, rutabagas, lettuce, and parsnips are visible now from my viewpoint at the kitchen window.
The days slip by so quickly, so amusing, so smoothly, so quietly, their passing hardly noticed. I would not have appreciated this during my youth and middle age. Now, the luxury of it is immeasurable.
I think living as Attila and I are able to live, in our own little house, with our own little garden, and our own little activities, gives us the personal agency to live a contented life. Personal agency is a key factor in human health.
Ginger seems always to have known this serenity. I didn’t know him as a kitten, perhaps he was not so in his youth and middle age. He is an older cat now, almost 12 years old. As I write he sleeps on the sofa. Most of the time he sleeps facing out into the room. I will look up from the keyboard to find him gazing at me. If I hold his gaze we make eyes at one another, but he soon turns and rests his head on his paws, and returns to the land of feline dreams.
Worldly
Weather
6°C
Date: 9:00 AM EDT Thursday 8 May 2025
Condition: Cloudy
Pressure: 102.5 kPa
Tendency: Rising
Temperature: 6.0°C
Dew point: 3.9°C
Humidity: 87%
Wind: NNE 19 gusts 29 km/h
Quote
“I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.”
Johnny Carson
1925 – 2005
I’m glad your garden is doing so well. You will have lots of good things to eat!
Joan, we are really looking forward to fresh produce this summer!
Our temps have been slowly yo-yoing up and down the last two weeks. But the next week, it’s sounding like we’re going to have mostly temps in the 20s/70s. That would be nice! We had a couple of days like that at the beginning of the month and we enjoyed them. And if we can have a few more blue sky days, even better.
Teri, it does sound like our weather is going to turn. Sunny skies yesterday, and mild, although the morning was a bit chilly… that was Saturday. This morning it looks like clear skies as well, still a bit chilly though, 3C out there early this morning. The garden doesn’t seem to care, things are green and growing!