Relocate to Wisconsin : A Time to Remember..The Clouds are Crying

  In Wisconsin, Memorial Day is the first holiday where there is any hint of warm weather...you will find every greenhouse and nursery buzzing with customers...it's a tradition...you dare not plant anything before Memoria Day or risk the chance that a last frost will destroy that pansy, daisy, petunia bloom and you will be forced to start over with another batch of heartier plants set to survive the summer.

   I can't remember a Memorial Day weekend in a lifetime in Wisconsin when it didn't rain.. It got the ground softer for planting..it dampened the spirits a little for the children watching the parade...it moved the picnic from the backyard to the garage or rec room....but maybe, just maybe from the "everything happens for a reason" school of thought...it is because it is reminder from a higher source....a reminder that while it is a "time off"....a 3 day weekend...a start of the festival season...what it REALLY IS.....