Lush, Green Moss

Local politics are funny when it's the 'other' side doing stupid things. Not so funny when people are elected with philosophies I agree with and then take it two steps further in stupidville. That's why I'm watering my lawn right now.
As I have written about Bellingham's constant rain, that last sentence should puzzle you. Since this is just a blog, I don't have time to explain all of it, so I'll just leave you pondering.
No wait. It is the fact that I live in a rain forest that turned my sprinklers on today.
Bellingham used to be a sleepy little retirement/college town. We got all our water from Lake Whatcom's middle basin which got a lot of snow melt via a diversion built to prevent the river from flooding in the spring.
No wait, as I was writing down the details I almost bored myself to sleep.
The upshot is that I am living in a rain forest where I am supposed to conserve water, so if I don't water my yard today, I don't get to water.
I suppose you are thinking, 'Nancy, just wait for a day or two and it will rain.'
But I wonder, if I don't have to worry about a drought, then why does the city council have watering restrictions? Am I going to wait and watch as ferns crinkle and die, the rhodendrens' leathery leaves turn curl and drop, the moss crunch beneath my feet? Nope.
So water police, I will water on designated days whether it is raining or not.
Nancy Sherer