The Promise of Spring

Weather people keep promising us an inch of rain; Sat. last I had 1/10, Sun. another 1/10^th, and Mon. a smidge over 2/10s. For rain gauge half-full folks, we are closing in on half an inch!

In view of the temps Tues. night I don't know if it was wise to take the flannel sheets off the beds, but I did. The asparagus is in, but we'll probably have to make soup, it is so cool. Covered the cabbage with milk cartons last night, but there was no frost, only a flirt with it, and I had better keep them handy.

Iowa Climate honchos—that would be the folks responsible for keeping our sewer & water lines running—well, not ours, but the multitudes in the states'sin big cities—are meeting in Des Moines to plan strategies for colder cold snaps and hotter hot ones. They will need more than milk cartons & flannel sheets.

Any critical eye who wants to survey a situation where no decision/action has rendered a far thornier outcome likely has no farther to go than climate change. Since the sixties, people from Rachel Carson to the Prince of Wales including most of the scientific community have warned us, but we can't seem to change. This much is certain—the climate is!!!