Beautiful But Dry

What a beautiful day we had again. The last few days have been 70'ish, and low humidity. Yeah! My kind of weather. A sad thing though, is the drought we are having. It is so very dry, of course not just here in Duluth, but most of Minnesota. There is a fire ban everywhere, including the the city, no open fires, bon fires, or even grilling. Everyone who does not water their lawn has brown and yellow lawns. The weatherman last night commented that he went in his backyard barefoot and the grass was so dry that it "chrunched" and "hurt" his feet. We really need rain badly.

I don't know why, but my husband has been watering our lawn. I know that he wanted to do it so it would look nice for our party 2 weeks ago, and he said after that he wouldn't water anymore. However, he has been still been watering everyday. The last two years he as really been taking pride in how the lawn looks...prior to the last two years, he could have cared less if the grass was green or full of weeds. I don't know what happened to change his attitude about the lawn, maybe its because he's retired now and is around the house more and "notices" things more. But, I feel guilty that we are using so much water each day, and I can't convince him that we shouldn't be watering. I see most people on my drive to and from work, are not watering, and many in our neighborhood aren't either. (He would be mad, if he knew I was writing this about him..that's ok....he never reads my posts and you won't tell him, right?!)

In my younger days, and before my full time employment I took real good care of our flower beds around our house, and was ambitious about making them bigger, and now I wish I hadn't made them so big, and so many of them, because I really have trouble keeping after them now.
I used to try to get my husband interested in helping with the flower beds and he always said
"I'm not a farmer"...his favorite words when I would talk about the flower beds. He wasn't concerned about the lawn then either. This spring and early summer when I said I wanted to work on my flower beds to have them look nice for the party, we made that statement again.
Well, maybe in another year or so he'll take interest in the flowers too...I can hope can't I?