this “w”eek’s “w”eather must have the local farmers “w”orried
Yes, I’ve got my eye on the weather app – and have every day since Sunday…………. and right now we are experiencing what I guess you could call a deluge! 🙁
“If you wake up and don’t want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You’ll see things in a different way.
Don’t stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here,
It’ll be, better than before,
Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone.”
(courtesy Fleetwood Mac, circa 1977)
I think I had one Fleetwood Mac album back in the day. This song fits the bill for me today – you know me, I could just cry. But, tomorrow IS looking a lot better – on that weather app, anyway – and I am hopeful! Finally. My sprinkler guy is coming today to turn on the system – chuckle, chuckle. So, key is to get through today without too much trouble!
Consider the garden. I guess I have turned into a serial chronicler (well a chronicler is someone who writes about important or historic events – ?) and a hoarder – of pictures! As I sit here this morning, eyeing the teeming rain with disdain, (I need to write a poem about that) I am thinking about how quickly we have trended already from those first long-awaited snowdrops which took soooooo long to move up out of the ground. We’ve drifted through daffodil season already, a few tulips here and there (deer favorite), feasted on Forsythia, the dogwoods, had a lovely long time with the Ranunculus, lilacs, and into the lovely allure of the Iris. They overlapped slightly with the Peonies, which are mostly gone now. My roses burst forth just a little over a week ago and now we move into definite summer-flower time. It’s amazing how quickly it has gone, isn’t it?
One can’t become too fixated on any one day in the garden. Often we see that on one day there is a great deal to enjoy and be grateful for, only to wake up the next day and have some bewitching change in elements in the landscape.
Of great importance in my thoughts today: after looking at my little tomato crop outside in pots, I’m thinking about how the month of June is a critical one for local Farmers. This is the month that their plantings really need to take off, and in the case of lots of key earnings crops, set their bounty in motion. No one wants their blossoms to rot on the vine. I’ve seen some plantings be very late this year – to escape the late coolness and try to gauge that moment in the season when they can best capture the “best weeks” “w”indow for setting flowers – especially on those precious Jersey tomatoes. So, I am hoping this will be the end of this “icky” weather and we’ll now have several (many) good weather weeks -aka sun and dry air!……..
You know that I’ve had a few episodes with alliteration lately. Today, it’s with W. Not the ex-President, W. You could have most likely predicted that I would emerge with a post about this week’s weather, couldn’t you? This is June, month of sunny, dry days – month of “W”eddings, month of enjoyment of the emerging “w”arm weather before the humidity and sultry emerge, no?
Well, I’d like to be able to stay in the “no comment” zone, but I can’t. Just one look outside my “w”indow and door and I’m like a hibernating animal who peaks out a bit too early and “w”ithdraws.
Her is a look at the “dismal” I snapped just a few moments ago before the next shower came along:
one of the very last Peonies standing
Ok, so yesterday I spent some time trying to re-particalize in Positano. I kinda did. So, other than sit here and complain incessantly, today’s calling is for a strategy…….
10, no 12 THINGS TO DO ON A RAINY JUNE DAY:
1. Go to the Guggenheim
2. Go back to bed and read a great book
3. Make a brioche dough for tomorrow
4.Catch up on reading new magazines – Dessert Professional, Santa Barbara, Food and Wine and Martha Stewart just came
5.Plan Father’s Day menu
6. book hotels for Italy
7. try to move my pictures off my desktop into a folder 🙁
8.clean my closet 🙁 (desperation)
9.go to Minetta Tavern again for lunch (was there yesterday) 🙂
10. plant my achillea – 
11. (ok, it’s not 10) make another batch of The Sirenuse Scones! yummy…… http://www.kitchen-inspirational.com/2014/06/12/le-scone-de-la-sirenuse/
12.go through Carolyne Roehm’s blog posts – always inspiring!
Actually – it could be a morning for Desperate Days Pancakes! Could it be raining any harder right now? http://www.kitchen-inspirational.com/2012/05/22/desperate-days-pancakes/ or, if you want to be “good” Ellie Krieger’s fabulously light Gluten-Free Pancakes!!! http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/gluten-free-buttermilk-pancakes.aspx
Actually, I’m taking Kit to the Vet today – (don’t tell her) 
TGFK – thank Goodness for Knockouts – those sturdy dependables!
Actually, the fragrance coming off my Lillian Austins is amazing!
Gotta Go now…….. Have a lovely day – inspire of the weather…… – was that a Freudian slip or what?