June? Already?

The weather is one of those useful topics to have handy when as a liberal Democrat you find yourself in a room full of GOP zealots that for one reason or other you don't wish to antagonize. Mark Twain one claimed to have written a book without any weather in it, and Jerome K Jerome called weather forecasting one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting and innocent populace.
I remember not paying the slightest attention to the weather the summer that Martin was born. When Fall came, everyone I talked to complained about what a rotten summer it had been, how it had rained every weekend for ten weeks in a row. I had not the slightest recollection that there had been any weather of any kind.
But now, the weather really does merit comment. We have had April Showers all through April, and throughout the month of May, and now it is the first week of June, and it rained yesterday, it is raining today, and is scheduled to rain into the weekend. Just how, one wonders, is one to plant a garden in this climate, without turning into something like the Tar Baby? We managed to get the garden turned over on one of the few dry days in April, anticipating that we'd be able to plant in May. But it rained most of May, and now it's Really Getting On Time To Plant, and it's muddy, damp and cold.
I am reminded of reading once that weather is one of those things people complain about but no one seems to do anything to fix it.
They are saying that Saturday will be only partly cloudy, and that it might not rain. I predict that if this happens no one in New England will be answering telephones, everyone will be outside trying to get their tomatoes and peas and beans planted ahead of the currently predicted thunderstorms due on Sunday.