It is forecast to be 100 degrees around here next week. If that proves accurate, it will be the first time ever the temperature has hit three digits in May. The time for initial spring flowers is long past, but I like this Sunday from 2017. Maybe our friends in the upper Midwest still have jonquils.
A Botany Lesson
By Jimmy Johnson
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40 responses to “A Botany Lesson”
As we used to say about triple-digit temperatures in the Deep South, “Suck it, up, buttercup.” 🙂
As Mark mentioned earlier this morning (on the previous post), what didn’t blow away in Oklahoma seems to be either under water or threatened with flooding. The Lake Eufaula water level is high enough that some lake-side businesses and campgrounds will probably not be able to operate this weekend. Since the economy of the City of Eufaula is very dependent on visitors to the Lake, this does not bode well for local businesses on the “Unofficial Beginning of Summer”. Including ours. But we are still grateful not to have suffered wind or water damage. Many have not been that fortunate.
We had some gorgeous irises in our yard until yesterday’s hailstorm.
🙁
I am surprised to learn that it has not been above 100° in your neck of the woods. I know that we have had 90° days in May when I grew up in Indiana and assumed that it had been above 100° down there. Stay safe and keep hydrated.
Here in Florida, 90° + temperatures in May are not uncommon however those temperatures are usually accompanied by late day thunderstorms that deliver 1 to 2 inches of rain in an hour. Not so this spring. I have two weather stations that both registered the relative humidity below 30% (I wasn’t going to believe just one) earlier this week. That low of level of moisture is almost unheard of. In Florida, even paint doesn’t get that dry.
Meanwhile back at my old residence in Colorado Springs this past Monday there was a freak late May snow storm that dropped 14″ in some areas.
Meanwhile in sunny Arizona:
https://www.azfamily.com/news/ap_cnn/storm-brings-more-snow-and-rain-as-unusual-may-weather/article_632724c4-7ccf-11e9-a4b4-ab22a8767dc9.html
The pictures on the news of snow, floods, and tornadoes have been depressing. Not meaning to get political, just factual, but I’m hoping it helps more people to understand what global warming can do. Here in the Dallas area, it’s been nice — more rain and cooler temps than usual, but hot and dry is coming.
I heard from LLee. She is doing well but her house had flooding on the first floor. That has now drained away and she is trying to dry things out. The good news/bad news of living next to a deep drainage ditch. You get the flood but it goes away quicker.
We still have them here in Southern Ontario… all the flowers are two weeks or more behind this year. Which is very unusual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyZD7eoHZT8 Appropriate music for Oklahoma right now.
It seems that many people no longer remember. I have already had one well-meaning person tell me to “enjoy the holiday.” With luck, I won’t hear anyone say, “Happy Memorial Day!” But I am not holding out much hope.
FWIW, Dictionary.com today suggests “Have a thoughtful Memorial Day.” I’ll have to think about that.
Well we need to Never Forget the young men and women who sacrificed their lives so that we can be Happy over the holiday. They died to allow us that right.
I am still trying to get used to my new schedule. Before I had to compensate for a 40 minute commute. However with our bathroom schedules, I haven’t slept in. I take the added time to look at social media and read the comics as well as the daily scriptures.
This morning I took my time as the last day of a holiday weekend means that fewer people will be in the office anyway. I dressed, grabbed my wallet, keys handkerchief etc. and realized that my Shinola watch that I got for my birthday was missing. It is the most expensive watch that I have owned, so I when I take it off, it is only located in roughly 3-4 places in the house. My wife is working from home so we rummaged through the house. Finally I gave up.
So as I pulled out my keys, I realized that I had grabbed the watch with it. I told one of the guys at work about it (already a good friend) and he told me just this week he was packing his car and talking on the phone at the same time. He was taking inventory and said to the guy on the other end of the phone “Oh man, I can’t find my phone!” Doh!!!!
Over 2 dozen white [inland] pelicans on a log [?] in a dammed lake in the Mississippi, SE MN/NW WI.
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/mississippi-river-flyway-cam
Peace,
Rick in Shermantown, OH https://www.memesmonkey.com/images/memesmonkey/f3/f34261ee4817ab242d920507979d8f31.jpeg
Rick in Shermantown, OH: one more, https://pics.esmemes.com/in-case-youthought-was-about-asda-weekend-losupportimilitary-muscle-21477944.png
Thank you. For me, they are deeply moving.
JJ has also given us several equally moving strips.
Steve
I have looked for papers with my right hand only to discover
that they were in my left hand.
Re 5-24-19 real-time cartoon: Janis, in Panel #5 – “What do tapas bars* have to do with anything?”
*Classical A&J cartoon reference (I’m fairly sure)
Ghost-
Several years ago, an enterprising restaurateur in our smallish town opened a tapas bar. It was fairly successful for a while, but the owner had to explain to some disappointed customers that a tapas bar was not a topless bar.
I’m “fairly sure” an old A&J cartoon had Janis suggesting they go to a “tapas bar”, and Arlo mishearing that as “topless bar”.
I did not look at the comments on the last thread until today. I would like to thank everyone for the good wishes. They are appreciated.
Here’s another weather related first: for the first time ever Purgatory Ski Resort outside of Durango, CO will be open for skiing on the final weekend of May. They received a couple feet of fresh powder in the past week and will have their front-side main lift open for snow activities while spring/summer activities go on at the base of the mountain.
Favorite t-shirt seen in the Boutique today (tie):
“Free Range Chick”
“Baby, I’m Worth the Whiskey”
Jackie says we have to keep our party-themed t-shirts separated from our religious-themed t-shirts, lest the former lead the latter astray. 🙂
Ghost and Jackie:??
Huh. That was supposed to be laugh till you cry. Rats. Here I thought I was being cool with emojis.
?
Thought I fixed it for you, Nancy, but obviously I’m no cooler than you. Perhaps that’s something that will work when Jimmy finishes the Village construction work.
Favorite ball cap seen in the boutique today: “Hot Southern Mess”.
I’ve known a few of those over the years.
https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2019/05/25
Great first comment on that strip. I don’t believe I ever encountered that joke before.
Favorite (party-themed) ball cap seen in the boutique today: “Sip Happens”