Well, Algore is a loon, as we all know.
Seriously,this is the strangest weather. Last Memorial Day, I was shelling English peas and this year it was nearly Father's Day before I picked our pea patch.
My potato patch is taking over the garden and the ones I have dug are bigger than those huge bakers you get in steakhouses. The tomatoes are big as grapefruit and still pea green. The corn is eight feet tall and tasseled but the ears are still tiny.
We have cut probably eight heads of broccoli and have ten more coming on. the melons and cucumbers seem to be making vines and blossoms but no fruit. I don't get it.
We had almost no snow last year and I have had it in my mind that we are going to get a hard winter.
Is it the same where you're at in Arkansas?
July 22 of 2003 my flagpole was bent 45 degrees and the flags still havn't been found. Storm is gone now.
Drummonds, TN
Well, I just moved to the house I'm in now and I don't have a garden yet, but the weather is definitely stranger than in years past. We've have a few really hot days and excessive rain. Not as many tornadoes as usual, thankfully, and we have mosquitoes from hell. We have mosquitoes every year, but nothing like this. They re so bad they're working in shifts. Even early in the morning going outdoors in shorts is a call to breakfast. I guess it's all the moisture and there has been a lot of flooding too, since late April. Did you ever see the movie "Frogs?" That's kinda what the atmosphere reminds me of. I have to admit, though, that I have been enjoying the milder temperatures.
***Seriously,this is the strangest weather. Last Memorial Day, ***
I remember that day! 1976! Tulsa. Mingo Creek! Destroyed everything we had.
Nine years later, same day it destroyed my brother's place.
Rejoice in this weather. It might not rain again for six months. The only difference between too much rain and drought is 2 weeks.