The good news is our yard looks wonderful, thanks to the proper amount of rain this past spring. The bad news is the mosquitoes think so too.
It’s always a good news/bad news thing; since what seems to be good for lawns seems to be bad for their owners. Grass doesn’t mind the sting of a mosquito, but its human owner surely does. It’s not as if we have any control either.
Two years ago, for instance, we had decent weather but just enough rain to insure the mosquito population would be an annoyance. We dallied on the deck during the day but fled indoors when the sun set. Then last year, it was so hot and dry that even the mosquitoes left town for the summer. But we didn’t sit on the deck much because of the high temperatures. We didn’t enjoy our fire pit either. After all, why would you start a bonfire when you’re already burning up?
The bottom line is that weather is a good news/bad news thing. If it’s good for some plants it’s bad for others; if it’s good for mosquitoes, it’s bad for humans. Maybe this is what they call the balance of nature.
I haven’t learned to live with it yet; instead I keep hoping there will be a perfect summer. That would be one with gorgeous flowers due to adequate rain, rich grass that grows at the same rate all summer, mosquitoes that decide they need to lie low because there was no heavy rainy spring mating season, birds and squirrels who cheer me on, and bonfires that die long after night descends.
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