Roses And Wheezes

Roses on Election Day? Now that's something you don't see very often, not growing outdoors, anyway, on trellises, fences, and garden gates. But indeed there have been roses in November this year, and even a few unlikely tomatoes lingering on the vine, well after the calendar says the first frost should have arrived.

The slow slide into winter this year has its drawbacks, though. Chief among them a conspicuous increase in wheezles and sneezles, the deep-down-in-the-chest kind that are the hardest to get rid of. Scarcely anyone we know seems to have escaped, although that may be because this particular affliction is said to last a good four to six weeks - more than enough time for every man, woman, and child in town to catch it from each other.

One wonders whether there might be some connection between the late roses and the early catarrh. The question seems worthy of scientific exploration. If a link can be shown, we'd be more than willing to give up the roses.

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