The Soggy Story....

Rhodies on Hold....

I Apologize for being so Absent in blogs lately, Dear Readers, but I am not succeeding in being able to comment on any blogs at the moment. This is probably due to the fact that I use Mozilla for my browser. And I admit that I resent being forced to change browsers to suit the algo-rhythms of google's new rules. After all, I have had this blog on Blogger for 13 years and have used Mozilla as my browser for all those years! I admit that I am sulking and hoping that Mozilla will be able to write their browser program to suit the new rules..... Is that likely? I have no idea. Meanwhile, I am unable to "play" with all my favorite bloggers in this otherwise magically Wonderful mini realm! And I also have too much to do to re-learn all my systems quickly.... not being naturally techno-fluent. I hope I will figure out what to do eventually... but meanwhile, life goes on, and at least (as of the last posting here) I was still allowed to post on my blog. But enough of my complaining.... well, maybe not, because my very next subject was going to be a complaint of the Drastically Wet summer we had in this part of the world! It started out a bit too dry in June and then the deluge began. We had 4.5 inches of rain in June (2.3 of it in the last two days of the month), then we had a shocking 18.02 inches of rain in July!!! The average is about 3.5" for July. It rained and rained. Downpour after downpour. One 6.2" rainfall in the middle of the month... but it just didn't stop! Hot, humid, Tropical weather in New England!

You might recall me showing you all the clusters

 of Rhododendron blossoms I had assembled.

And all the florets I had constructed in batches

 of ten but had not glued into clusters yet.

 

Well, in all that humidity the glue was taking Forever to dry!

I would start to assemble a cluster, get one blossom glued....

 and go do something else and forget to come back to glue another one.....

 really, the glue just didn't harden!

And I needed to make the leaves to go with the clusters..... 

and when I tried to punch the paper... 

it ripped rather than cut the edges! 

The paper was just soggy from all the humidity!

Soggy paper is No Fun!

So the Rhododendron bush has been effectively on "hold"

 since the middle of July, Dear Readers,

while the weather continued to Rain...

An "average" 4 inches in August, (slightly above average really)

and a whopping 10.02 inches in September......!

(The remnants of Hurricane's Lee, Ophelia, and Philippe)

Which would have been noteworthy 

except that it wasn't anywhere near like July...!

So that's my Soggy Sob story, Dear Readers!

I will eventually be able to punch paper again.... 

and get the glue conveyor belt going, 

but for Now the Rhodies are on hold

While I hope for a little less rain! 

(And keep my fingers crossed that this will post!)