Full moon

With the heat index still at ninety-six degrees at ten p.m., it is a lovely evening to look out the window at the full moon and listen to the automatic sprinkler system spraying the big canna leaves.

You may not hear about it on NPR, but Old McDonald is in crisis.  This is not a drought problem, or about federal farm subsidies.  This is about preschoolers who don't know that cows say MOO.  How are we going to EIEIO?  The preschoolers are here a cluck, there a duck, everybody run amok.  It happens every year, so I shouldn't be surprised that city kids no longer have any experience with farms.  Drives between Omaha and Lincoln, NE, were such a regular feature of my sons' preschool years they knew the names of all the farm implements by age five.   Old McDonald had to sing about those implements in the car as well as all his animals.

Mostly Clear	Partly Cloudy	Mostly Sunny	Mostly Sunny	Partly Cloudy	Sunny	Sunny	Sunny	Sunny	Mostly Sunny
--High	103°	100°	100°	100°	100°	100°	101°	101°	102°
79°Low	79°	78°	79°	79°	79°	78°	78°	78°	78°

If I'm going a bit mad, it could be the full moon.  More likely it is the unrelenting heat.  The ten-day outlook is more of the same.  I stood outside to listen to the automatic sprinkler hitting the big canna leaves and enjoy a bit of mist.

© 2011 Nancy L. Ruder