Was the sun coming up or going down?

Yet another day has come and gone and here we are looking at each other and wondering - is this the end of the day or have we already gotten up to start the next?

Speaking for myself (I'll ask Tammy how she feels later), while I wish I could get more done each day, etc etc - I've enjoyed this season more than the last three.  We've got better tools, better ideas of how to handle things and (knock on wood) better weather.  Does it mean we're caught up?  Of course not.  What made you think that?

RECENT  EVENTS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS on the FARM:

• All melons and watermelons are IN the field and hopefully will get watered in tonight.
• The next succession of beets and radish are in.
• All peppers, hot peppers and eggplant are in the ground
• A couple 200 foot double rows of onions got the royal weeding treatment
• Both the turkeys and the ducks have graduated to having the 'run' of their rooms (rather than smaller boxes).  It won't be too long before each is day ranging.
• We're continuing to deal with the raccoon issue.  They've found a few of our hens and we're trying to stop it before it becomes a catastrophe.  Current score:  Raccoons 5, GFF 2
• We got our potatoes and winter squash put into our Waverly Community Garden plots. 
• The red exclusion cages we made 5 years ago (and had numerous people help paint them) have been shored up for another year of service.  It may be their last year.  But, at the time we made them, we expected maybe 3 years out of them.  thanks for the help Dad!
• We have no more vegetable plants for sale.  They have all sold or been donated to community garden projects.

UPCOMING EVENTS and ... uh... STUFF

• Dan Gingerich construction will be out starting tomorrow to put a roof on the granary.  Unfortunately, it made sense financially to take the cupola down.  Sometimes you don't get everything you want.  But, we'll accept this if we can use the building and no longer worry about it leaking so much.
• We make a trip tomorrow to Scattergood Farm in West Branch.  We have teamed up with four other farms (Heritage Farm in Grinnell, Blue Gate in Knoxville area and Scattergood).  The goal is for us to converge at one of the four farms each month (June-Sept) for a work day followed by food.  We remember how much it meant to us when Mark and Dana came up last year from Scattergood.  It went a long way towards turning our attitudes about the year around.  We hope making this happen can help all of us be more successful.
• For those who don't know - a web flat can hold 18 3.5" pots (so, 18 peppers or tomatoes or eggplant) or a flat can old a 72 hold insert for things like broccoli or onions or squash.   So..please explain this to me.  There is a pile of web flats that is nearly as tall as I am.  These are web flats that HAD plants in them that we have put into the ground. How is it that *all* of our cold frames still have web flats with plants in them that need to go into the ground?

I'm not sure I can remain coherent much longer.   This must suffice for a blog post!