May? Day

I wish I could say it was a beautiful May Day on the NCR.  Unfortunately, it was more like an average day in late March.  Cloudy, damp and cool/cold, it was the perfect day to celebrate 4 months of the Divine Mrs. M's unstinting labor for her Champlain Valley Voices concert at the Strand Theater in Plattsburgh.  Despite the gloomy weather, the Voices were in fine fettle and the consensus was the event went well.  Meanwhile, in the garden, slowly is the watchword.  Before the rain started I was able to transplant some cole crops from the cold frames to the open garden.  There they will sit until daytime temperatures get into the 60s on a regular basis.  Despite the 1/4 inch of rain we received, the soils are drying and will warm quickly with some strong May sunshine.   Everything else remains stalled and the heat loving vegetables remain in startup phase or safely in their packets as we wait for a capricious Mother Nature to relent.  On the national scene, nothing much changed over the weekend as far as I can tell.  Bobby Knight continues to illustrate why highly paid, successful coaches should not be trusted further than they can throw presidential candidates.  We seem to have reached a lull in the presidential campaign as the parties begin the process of resigning themselves to the consensus candidates on either side.  The jockeying for the fall has begun already and it looks like a tawdry and contentious battle between a couple of New Yorkers who will trade insults for the next six months.  I hope my daughter Merry's addition to the family is born into a world whose most powerful leader will be a beacon of hope, not a hateful misogynist.