Traditional Wisdom....
It rained in the night- and I find myself thinking, "Well, it's good for the garden" and then "It's good for the farmers"- snippets of traditional wisdom that have been handed down from generation to generation and which everyone says or nods at without ever pausing to think whether they're actually true....
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sometimes they are. My folks (who were from a semi-agricultural part of the state) always said snow is 'poor person's fertilizer' (it contains nitrogen and other soil enriching nutrients). But if it snows after those tender shoots come up and the crop is frozen (admittedly not likely to happen in these days of climate change but still) then how beneficial is that? If the corn is nearly ripe and there is a serious rain storm and the stalks are all destroyed, how beneficial is that?
These are scary times and getting scarier.
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and yet...I hear 'this winter is going to be a bad one, we'll have snow right up the wazoo' and 'we've always had hot spells in the summer.' One can't argue about climate change with people like that. not that it does any good to argue anyway.
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The glass is falling year by year,
The glass will fall forever
And if you break the bloody glass
You won't hold up the weather.
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We had a very wet summer. For once there was no talk about reservoirs running dry or having to Impose a hose pipe ban.
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I know someone who lives in an area of Arkansas where there's been oil well "fracking" going on. Because of the fracking, she and all of her neighbors will never ever be able to have water wells put in and they will forever be at the mercy of the local water provider for their area who charges whatever it wants to charge.
She's complained that if she'd known how often her area of Arkansas has summer droughts, she'd never have bought her little homestead where she did.
:^\
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