Spring Rain

The first day of the season back at the farm was wet and short. I drove the hour and a half out to Silver Springs yesterday morning only to find that it was raining too hard to do needed soil preparation work. All I could do was rope off a few of the patches in back that will grow carrots, peas and peppers this year, get Ray and Virginia caught up on everything that's been going on in my life these past few months, and then saddle up for the long ride back to Reno.

We've had so much rain this Spring, it shouldn't be long before the desert east of Reno turns green as a golf course, just like it did after last year's wet Spring. All this does not bode so well for the farm, however; although rainfall is usually helpful, this current batch of storms has moved the schedule back considerably. It's going to be harder this summer for me to find free time for the farm, but the later the work gets pushed back the more intense it's going to be when the honest-to-god warm weather really arrives.