Noah News

7-2-06 VERMONT: We have been here for several days with no posting, I apologize to my reader. The big news is the rain. Every day we get more. The wet parts of the yard are awash. If you step in there, your foot sinks to the ankle and your shoe stays behind when you step out. Slugs are everywhere. The rain gauge numbers: on arrival 4.8”, then 0.85”, another 0.85”, 0.1”, and 0.2” for a total of 6.8” since mid June. Add to that 11.85” from late April to mid June for a total of 18.65” in 10 weeks. This total is almost half the yearly average. Don’t look now, but it is raining again.

Between rain drops, I have been weeding and pruning and swatting flies and mosquitos. Something ate all the sunflower seedlings. I will plant more, they’re cheap. The horses arrive today which event causes canine consternation.

The girls have all started camp, and their moms and dads are gone ending our first wave of summer guests.

New blooms: phlox, daylily, meadow rue, yarrow, baptisia, peony, dianthus, rogersia, recumbent sedum, bluet, campanula, water lily, lamium, hosta, ladys mantle, trascantia, fever few, valerian, money plant, astilbe, daisy, spirea, weglia, stephenandra, summer sweet, roses and diablo.