It rains, therefore I blog

Hey folks, the weather has turned once again, driving me inside.  So, into the greenhouse we went, moving up every pepper that was ready from the seedling tray into a 3-inch pot of its own.  Then, we pulled every weed we could find.  Finally, we organized all the tools, pots, and trays.  Still finding the outside world much too wet we had a cup of tea and simply hoped for sunshine.

Not that a Californian can complain about rain, but it is testing the patience of the farmer in me.  Needing some positive perspective we had dinner with farmer friends yesterday and lamented about what we concluded to be one of the wettest springs we could remember.  My own memories of Humboldt County go back only to 2003, but our dinner hosts were born and raised in the area, and they agreed is has been unusually wet.  The Pluses(+‘s): perennial plants are very happy, we havent needed to water outside at all, the cool weather is great for transplanting and physical work in general.  The Minuses (-‘s): tomatoes will probably be late in ripening this year, which is just one thing but it feels bigger than that. 

I think I see a sliver of blue sky on the horizon, off I go, catch you later.