Category: Seasons

  • Dog days

    It’s been dog hot here the last couple of days, and looks like it’ll continue to get hotter up through the weekend, until we finally get some relief early next week. We did get some much-needed rain last night – up to two inches in some areas around here, though we probably got closer to an inch, give or take an inch. I would have preferred that it rain a little more quietly; the thunder and lightning was a nice added touch, but at 2 in the morning? Not really necessary. But with as dry as it’s been, I’m not complaining… Figures that after it rained for just about two months straight, now it pretty much hasn’t rained for about two months straight. Could have seen that coming though, with the way the weather acts around here.

    In keeping with the quote, Sadie prefers to spend her time lying somewhere in the yard or on the porch, though she still spends a fair amount of time nosing around in the woods, chasing creatures unseen (she must have a very vivid imagination). I too would prefer to lie around, but of course, don’t have much time for that. C doesn’t seem affected by the heat at all, and is still continuously on the move. Kid can not sit still. Someday, we’ll all be able to chill on the porch, but today is not that day. Nor any day for the remainder of the week, I presume.

    How’s the weather in your vicinity? What’s your favorite way to cool down?

  • “What potent blood hath modest May”

    “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.”
    –  Edwin Way Teale

    It’s days like the past couple that really wake you up from the winter blahs, which around here last for the better part of six months or so. Of course, if there was no winter, there could be no spring. Or at least we wouldn’t appreciate it as much. Not that I would mind a perpetual summer living in Hawai’i… Nah, I’m an Ohio boy at heart.

    I love that first extended period of real spring (not the technical calendar spring, which is really still just late winter), where everything seems to happen at once. In a seemingly short span, all kinds of flowers are in bloom, the wind rustles through the trees’ new leaves, the sun is warm (not the deceptively cold winter sun), and the scent of crab apples and lilacs floats through the air. All you want to do is sit on the porch and take it in with all of your senses, because you know that all too soon, this will be just a memory. But that memory is what gets you through the long winter in anticipation of the next spring.

    I’m sure I speak for everyone in Northeast Ohio when I say that spring was a long time coming this year. And I hope I also speak for everyone when I say that I’ll do my best to make the most of these few short months that we have. Even if that means sitting in your rocker with a glass of lemonade, just watching.