Several days of summer

This summer took its not so sweet time to arrive.

Winter was too long, spring did not happen, and we were just miserable.

What all of this can do to someone, you ask?

Bad weather can lead to incongruous blog posts, Twitter jokes not understandable by anybody except the writer -- and even then we have a window of no more than ten minutes before even the tweet's author scratches his or her head and goes: who in the world wrote this?

All this is no more!

We've had wonderful weather for three days now, and the corn is finally poking pointy little leaves through the sawdust protecting the seeds from bindweed.

This is, as a matter of fact, the only good thing about the weather in the first half of 2013. There is so little bindweed this year and, correspondingly, very little cursing about the invasive weed when we step out.

For just a few more months, the corn will try to beat the end of the growing season. If all goes well, we won't have to spend big bucks on popcorn kernels at the health food store.

Correct, at the health food store.

City supermarkets may carry it, but out here, the health food store is the only place to find it.