GARDENERS DO IT IN THEIR BEDS

Down at the Garden Club, it all started when somebody quoted, "March winds and April showers, make way for sweet May flowers." This caused a round of reflection. The club's oldest member ruminated that he was no longer to play Romeo opposite Taylor Swift . . . but perhaps King Lear with the Kardashian sisters. Specifically in Act Two's weird weather. "Ah yes," noted our irrigation expert, "something Noah would have envied, eh. Actually," he went on, "about this time of year, the jet stream moves northwards, allowing wetter weather to move in. It was a popular English saying by the mid-1500s." The oldest member gazed morosely into his pint glass. "Tastes like some of it landed in this beer. But as Al Jolson sang, "Though April showers may come your way/They bring flowers that bloom in May." All the other members nodded.