Thursday, June 24, 2010

Too much rain, too much heat, too much denial

Too much rain this past week and too much heat this past month.  Just a little different for June.  The ground is like a sponge and the river is up over the crops in the river bottom ground.  Our market gardens are holding their own, but too many more storms and they will uproot since their roots are so loose in the wet soil.  At least we have been spared hail which would take all of our vegetables and new grape vines.  I remember the slow rains that we had in hot weather when I was a child.  We would actually go out and play in the rain to cool off.  Now it seems that all the rains are attached to wind and hail.  Climate change is catching up with us.  Too bad we wasted so many years in denial while those in power tried to 'determine' if there was really a problem. An old '60's saying comes to mind "if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.'  Our greed and broken economic system doesn't work very well as we try to solve the problems we have created.