April showers bring in May showers

Well it's May but the April showers just showed up. The ground is at saturation point after a week of rain here in the northeast U.S. zone 5. So the traditional weather pattern is late by a few weeks. But the rain barrels are full, transplants are loving it, and the flowering bushes like azaleas and wysteria are in bloom.

I thought about what my own garden blog would add to the plethora of blogs out there. None of them used the garden as the center of consciousness. Really, isn't that required to remain sane, a center of focus? When all the other blinking lights and carnival noise is too much, withdraw your focus a little closer. Not to withdraw into a recluse, a hermit but to remain positive and mentally healthy - not overstimulated and stressed out.

Can you really absorb all the bad news, or like the ground or barrel, you are saturated and depressed? Meanwhile the flowers are in bloom but your focus is only on that barrel the soggy ground, the overcast sky and rain.

Garden activities, 6-May-09:

1. Reseeded missing Sugar snap peas - there were just a few seeds that failed to germinate.
   
2. Weeded the blueberry patch - I am battling thistle and ground ivy
   
3. Organized the shed and hooked up the radio to a battery and solar panel
4. Moved the chicken run - the rain did a good job cleaning poop off grass - and it looks like the Silky hen is now brooding on her nest (only the rooster is in this picture)
   

World news:

1. Bank Stress Test - BoA needs $34B in capital. Note: capital should come from past profits, not from future tax revenues which is what these bailouts are, ie. deficit spending to capitalize banks.