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Cats Shedding, Weeds, And Other Delights Of Spring
Spring is my favorite season, when did it become SO MUCH WORK?!
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD.
EVERY THING is spring
It’s spring. Everything is budding, blooming, overtaking plantings, and sprawling everywhere. The gardens and tree plantings require perpetual watering.
If it’s a cat, it’s bringing in skittering rodents, knocking over boxes, knick-knacks, and leaving gore and blood stains (only when I cannot rescue the prey). He, or she — we have two — is shedding fur all over the furniture, pillows, library and office. The floofy, one, especially, has fur all over the keyboard as I write.
Why was spring easier in the past?
It’s not that every single thing has to do with climate change and politics, but it’s because every single thing has to do with climate change and politics.
Because the PNW is in perpetual drought, we have to water almost daily. Evergreen seedlings, under-story, non-weed vegetation, and domesticated plants once had a better chance to thrive naturally in wet springs. There is also the reality that there are fewer pollinators, insects in general, and a…
