From The Arbor Starting A New Year Of Publication
By way of comparison, has this summer been as hot as last winter w
as cold? I don’t have the statistics to back up my claim, but I declare it to be so and with confidence that most folk will agree with me. Thanks to the rainfall this summer, Pontotoc County has stayed green longer into August than one might expect in a more typical year.
I think my co-editor, Carl Wayne, had a successful tomato harvest, but if not, it’s safe to assume his was more fruitful than mine. I’m not a gardener, but I did purchase three tomato plants in early May and set them in a sunny spot in my backyard. There they sat, and nothing I did for them worked. I transplanted one to a container after two months and purposefully mowed down a second one in early August. I doubt the third will fare any better. So far, I’ve not harvested a single ripe tomato, which is a personal low in my lifetime of green thumb efforts.
I continue to despair that our area public schools start their respective school year in early August after having ended the prior school year in late May. At best, students get about a ten weeks’ vacation from their formal studies and teachers less than that. Economically, it makes little sense to air-condition classrooms during the hottest month of the year, when adjusting the length of a few of the many holidays of the school year would allow students to return to school after Labor Day.
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