Memorial Day is the day after tomorrow. Tuesday is the official start of meteorological Summer. Mid-day on this Memorial weekend Saturday, the temperature has barely broken 60℉. Normal high for today is 73℉. We won't come anywhere near close. I'm feeling less guilty by the day about not getting out there and getting the branches picked up and the grass cut. [Have you heard of No Mow May?] Maybe, after tomorrow's rain, we'll get closer to normal, comfortable, warm temperatures on Monday. That could make the day a good one for collecting branches and checking for dog droppings before we fire up the tractor and cut grass on the first day of [meteorological] summer.
One of the nice things about living in the country, with no homeowner's association, is there's no requirement to keep the place looking like a suburban yard. Now, if I can get my OCD under control and admit it's unrealistic to keep everything perfect, all the time, I may actually enjoy the weekend, next week, the balance of the summer and even the rest of the year. It was definitely more pleasant to watch a tom turkey displaying in the field behind the house, while a hen at the foot of the field's low hill completely ignored him, than doing yard chores would have been.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
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