Rainy day and mixed feelings....

Right now it is still raining lightly out and I have mixed feelings about that.

When it rains on a weekend the amount of stuff we can do is greatly reduced. Which means I have a lazy time. We did 4 hours or so of field work before the rains started yesterday. It rained HARD! which watered in the plants we put in the ground, but means that it is still to mucky to get out there and do much. It is nice to have a little rest, but there is SO MUCH to do!

It has been a VERY rainy year, in case you had not noticed. I am NOT complaining, because the type of relatively steady rain we have had since May is a rarity in most years, but it does mean that field chores get reprioritized and things get put off. This is the kind of year when our "real" jobs really hurt us, because if the weather is nice on Thursday and Friday we are still really limited to what we can get done between 5 and 9... Oh, and you want supper? Take away another hour...

We still need to pick for today's members, so around 12 we will go out and get that done, picking in the mud means washing will be a pain, but other then picking and starting some cabbage seed for the fall that is all there is to do...

So this morning I have some time to get caught up on some reading!

When it rains...

When it rains it...

Wait a minute, it didn't rain! After all the talk for a week of the "Memorial Day Storms!" we had exactly NO rain, and we were counting on it!

We put in a few thousand more feet of row crops (lettuce, carrots, beets, turnips, parsley, ect, ect), 300 more feet of potatoes, and hundreds of starts, tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. And then we waited for the rain, which never came...

Farmer's Prayer:
Please let it rain,
But not to much...

So this morning poor hubby gets to water all of our transplants! As we have yet to expand our irrigation system (ouch, more money: seems to have been going out like water this year, thank goodness for my mom's kind gift and our CSA deposits!) he'll do it with old fashioned hoses...