We had a really pretty dry winter up here in Colorado. Not drought, but not stellar snowfall totals either.

However, we've been having a drenching springtime. Afternoon thunderstorms every single day for several weeks. This is normally what we get later in the summer, which hasn't even started yet.

It's making for a difficult time mowing the lawns, because it's always pretty wet and I have a mulching lawnmower.

You learn some unexpected lessons as well. Like the fact that it doesn't actually require 5 minutes to disassemble my bike and stow it in the back of my car. There's nothing like a brilliant flash, a deafening boom and echoing rumbles, accompanied by 2 centimeter droplets of very cold water to encourage you to find elusive efficiencies in your procedures.

But what will be the cost?

Bzzzzzzt.

Mosquitos. T'ousands and t'ousands of mosquitos.

Okay, so I've killed one. But that's the first I've seen up here in a couple of years. I'm just predicting the t'ousands. But you wait and see. We'll get 'em, you betcha.