84-Unc*Bter Farming, Saturday, August 27. 1994 , Earlier this (year, I made a vow. If we just received regular rains through the summer season to grow crops, I solumly promised myself to refrain from complaints about heat, humidity or a mildew scented house. This personal stance rises from lingering me mories of numerous back-to-back years of drought So over the last few weeks, when tempted to moan over hay rotting in the fields under gray, leaden skies, I run that promise back through my head as a re fresher. And follow up with a look around outside. Cornfields around the neigh borhood arc thick, tall, and hang ing heavy with ears filled with yel lowing kernels. Fields of soybeans are equally impressive, lush seas of deep-green leaves shading clus ters of pods in which round beans are fattening. Even while fanners try to cut, dry and harvest third-cutting of al falfa, muggy days and cool, damp nights have quickly pushed fourth-cutting. 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Up through teeny cracks in the blacktop drive and along the edges of bam walls. And sprouting in the tain gutters. It’s hard to mow grass growing in a tain gutter. Gutters on the lower side of our farmhouse run along the back porch roof, right over the concrete basement porch two stories below. Neither of us is ever anxious to dumb a ladder above the concrete porch apron to clean out those high-rise tain gutters. Thus tain gutter cleanout gets pushed aside in the crash of the hectic summer time field and herd chores. So when a couple of grass seeds, probably dropped by house sparrows, foudn their way into the rain gutter, they took root. And continuing August moisture has encouraged their growth. It gives * Open Youth The Northampton County 4-H Center is offering an Open Youth Schooling Horse Show on Sunday, October 2.1994, starting at 10 a.m. This will be held in conjunction with the open house being held at the 4-H Center. The 4-H Center is located 2.2 miles south of Rt 512 and 4 miles north of Nazareth on Bushkill Center Rd. the porch a sporty. Mohawk-hair cut look. Morning glory seeds tossed there would provide a much more attractive growth. They could cas cade and vine down over the back porch posts, sort of like our own Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Instead, the morning glory vin es, annual returning remnants of a single stalk planted ten years or so ago, have crawled merrily out of what was supposed to be the strawberry patch. The vines now form a thick latticework of leaves over the adjoining fence, despite the fact that I have twice treated the area with a contact weedkiller. For every sprayed morning glory vine that shrivels up. two re placements pop up to fill the gaps. At least their pretty, blue flowers provide a redeeming beauty. Which is more than can be said for the annual invasion of the rag weed monsters. 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