landscaping in the rain
by admin - March 16th, 2009.Filed under: Uncategorized.
How fitting to be blogging about this subject in March/09 when it is just pouring rain in the beautiful but wet city of Victoria, B.C. What do I like and dislike about landscaping in the rain? Lots of both. I love being outside any time, rain or shine but I do not necessarily like working in the stuff. There is always fewer people out when it is raining so it becomes kind of this quiet retreat when it is pouring but on the flip side, nothing like a bead of rain running down your back in 4 degree celsius weather. There is also nothing like digging in the rain, where every shovel full is not full of soil (as we call it in landscaping) but mud, slimey, slippery, get in everything mud/muck. You get it on your boots, gloves, jacket, equipment, in your truck, in your shop and in your home. But, having said all of that, you have to work when the work is there. If you let the rain bother you it will. I chose to ignore it, it is what it is. Landscaping in the rain is not much fun, but it isn’t something I let get me down. I just think about that dry summer a matter of 8 weeks away (or so I hope) and keep shovelling to stay warm. Thinking about how much cleaning I have to do to all the equipment also keeps me warm (or hot under the hat!). Sometimes I miss the Kootenays where precipitation in March means a big powder day up on Red.