A lot of farmers lost their crops to the recent frost. This is the first time in 40 years that I will not have enough berries to sell. My blueberries were loaded for the first time in years. My heart sank when I went out to find that the frost had frozen all of the berries. Then I went to check the boysenberries, which were also all frozen except for a few hardy ones here and there. The ollalieberries were also gone. Well I can’t complain. This is only the first time that I will not have berries to sell.

Talking as I do with other farmers, it sounds as if a lot of them lost their tomatoes, fruit and other frost-sensitive plants. However, other farmers I checked with — especially those in the Cloverdale area — did not lose any of their fruit. Reports out of the Napa area indicate that the vineyards lost a lot of grapes. I thought the earth was supposed to be warming up.

Don’t get me started about global warming.

I think a lot of people are making a killing on convincing us to buy all these products to cool down the earth. Next they will be telling us an ice age is starting.

Talk about hoaxes. There have been a lot of them lately. Remember when the new century started and people were telling us our computers wouldn’t work and how we had to get ready because everything that relied on computers would go on the fritz and throw this country into a tizzy? Remember the apple and beef scares in the ‘90s? How about the meteorite that was supposed to hit the earth? And so on it goes. Why don’t we trust God? The earth belongs to Him. He is not going to let us destroy it.

Well, that felt good. Thanks for reading.

The days are warming up and every year I like to warn you about rattlesnakes. Never put you hand where you can’t see. I moved a rock yesterday and found a garden snake. I am not afraid of snakes so I picked him up and let him go into the woods. I killed two rattlesnakes last year they were in my flowerbed. They were little ones. I think if I found a big one, I would quake in my shoes.

Thursday, May 15, candidates night, 7 p.m., Community Center.

Saturday, May 24, is the Strawberry Festival so come support the community’s local event.

Happy Mothers Day, recycle, volunteer and ask God to send us some rain.