Farmers have 2 times of year when they are the most busy: planting and harvest. Although quite delayed by the wet spring (the tv news reported last week that we are running about 11" above normal for rainfall), we are finally in the midst of planting. The good news is that we have made a LOT of progress in the last 9 days. What it also means is that blogging has been pushed aside a bit. My weekdays go something like this. Slide out of bed sometime between 5:30-6am, do my morning chores (feeding chickens, cats and dogs), eat breakfast, get ready for work, go to work at the clinic, work overtime because the clinic is incredibly busy right now, come home, sit down for 20 minutes to catch my breath, do evening animal chores, tack on some kind of farm chore or mowing the lawn or walking the dogs (which is a BIG priority in my book), waddle into the house between 8:30-9pm, make dinner, relax a bit and then slide into bed around 10pm. Last weekend was filled with an all day volunteer activity and then a family cookout the next day. Nowhere in there was there a spot for blogging. Or house keeping for that matter. I'm thinking of hiring an armed guard to stand at my door and keep people from coming inside and seeing the total clutter that exists right now in the house. OK, it hasn't quite reached that level, but you get the picture and it ain't pretty.
On to the progress in the farm. As usual, my vantage point standing next to the pasture fence at the edge of the garden, shows no progress. Once again, I remind that this will be the last area to be worked on this year.
However, by walking straight forward, you come to where all the transplanting of the greenhouse started plants has taken place the past 9 days.
A week ago this past Monday, I got to ride the transplanter with Melissa while Mike drove the tractor. We planted all the tomatoes, all the watermelons and most of the eggplant. Here are Melissa and Mike filling the water tank on the transplanter as we get ready to plant the VERY tall tomato plants.
And here I am after a day of transplanting. It's not very physically demanding work, but it is VERY dirty work.
The tomatoes on the left and the watermelons to the right are coming along nicely a little over 1 week after being planted.
And there the cucumbers are starting to grow well too.
And because all the flats of greenhouse started plants that are not yet planted are up off the ground and sitting on our hay wagons, the hens are now off house arrest and are allowed to freely roam the yard once again. They are very happy girls.
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