Gardening My Sanity

I haven't posted anything to my blog in a month. Too busy getting the vegetable garden ready and starting my seedlings inside the house. This year I'm planting a couple of new items: turnips and kolhrabi besides all the usual vegetables. While getting the garden ready to plant a couple of other things took priority. My ex-boss at the airport, where I used to work as a certified weather observer, killed himself. Blew his brains out a couple of weeks ago. It reminded me of the poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson entitled, Richard Cory. If you aren't familiar with the poem check it out at your nearest library. In life, or the vegetable garden, one never knows what the heck in going to happen next. Anyway...my wife and I are now taking care of two new members of the family, a parrot named Midnight and a cat that goes by the handle - Durango. The parrot has about a two hundred word vocabulary. She says entire phrases like: "Where are you going? and Woe is me." Very intelligent creature but not the neatest bird on the block. And my wife accuses me of making messes!!!
Although I've been out in the garden much of April (no, I don't sleep out there) I've kept track of what's happening in our little world. Bottom line...the stock market is going up as the financial situation of the middle class plummets. Houses are being repossed at a record pace. The rich continue to get richer and the poor poorer. The so called stimulus package is a joke. Why not be honest and hand out Monoply money?
Well, enough ranting for now. Back to the garden and sanity.