We were up early this morning

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Not because we're all that ambitious but because it was going to be 90 degrees today. We sure don't want to work hard when it gets that hot. But since we've got rain coming...

We finally got rain

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After weeks of drought and high heat, yesterday dawned with a dark, cloudy day. It was supposed to be sunny and 90s, so we wondered; it felt like it wanted to rain. But because...

We’re sure hoping for more rain

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In the meantime, I've begun watering in various gardens and the orchard. That's in between putting tomato cages on a trillion tomato plants. Will has been busy mulching and pounding in steel T posts...

I had a terrible spring cold

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I hope I haven't worried any of you but I just wasn't up to blogging last week. I got a terrible spring cold — runny nose and coughing 24/7. Yep, I took zinc, vitamin...

Our snow is gone

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Well … mostly, that is; there still are a few lingering piles, here and there, mostly in the shade of the woods. But our snow's gone and that's the most important thing. (Even though...