"Stupid, stupid rain!" Duchess D'Antan
"We are now half stupid. Soon we will be completely stupid." Alfred de Musset
From the 1991 motion picture "Improptu"
It's hard to complain about rain, with the memory of the 2005 drought still fresh and local trees still suffering its effects. But enough is enough - over nine inches of rain since Saturday morning. Fortunately, my sloping ground has not flooded, but those poor people who live along the Fox and Des Plaines rivers are in real trouble. If their yards aren't already inundated, they soon will be.
My problems are limited to massive mosquito mayhem and soil too saturated to plant in. Also, the coleus in one planter look sad, leggy and discolored. On the other hand, Anemone 'Andrea Atkinson' is taller than I am, and it usually tops out at three feet! The grass is not brown and crunchy and the anemonella has not died back yet. I hope the weather pattern changes soon, I need to get some shrubs in the ground before it gets too late. Sadly, the forecast includes the possibility of rain for five out of the next seven days.