Hard to believe it's May 1

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Kind of hard to believe it's May 1 already or almost May 1. Pretty close. We've been busy so the time has kind of flown by. I know when one is idle time seems to go by really slow. I was talking to Gary the other day, and he said he'd gone through the drawers and arranged them until he was tired of it. One friend of Marge's said they were watching the grass grow. Not us. We've been getting the gardens ready to plant and kind of waiting on Mother Nature. I got in a hurry one year and lost a bunch of pepper and tomato plants when it frosted. It's been a bunch of years ago, but there were a couple rows of peppers and tomatoes in one of the tunnels. Probably 50 of each. It wasn't good. Forecast looks good, so we are starting to plant.

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