Happy Tomatoes

They spent the week outside, and have grown a lot! The next couple days it will be colder, so we will bring them in, but after that I might just plant them outside. The weather has been June-like, and is supposed to continue this way for a while.

This weekend it was meant to rain, which is hasn't really done in a month, but they keep pushing it back and it has basically disappeared. We saw this same pattern last summer with the drought. Looks like it is happening again. Some fires have already started in the forest, and it is only the middle of April.

I hooked up the rain pipe to the pond so that we can collect rain water from the roof. Kind of useless without rain though. We will need to water the gardens and add a lot of water to the ponds today. I have also been redoing the edges of the newer ponds so that the black liner is a bit more hidden. Got a new depth gauge put in the cistern as well and checked another spot for a potential leak. Still haven't found anything. I will try reducing the pump pressure to see if that helps as the leak might be between the pump and the waterfall.

Sure is nice to have a couple days free from teaching so that we can spend some time outside and get things done! Yesterday I coughed and messed up my back. Still moving about like a 90 year old. Yesterday I spent most of the day on the sofa swing, and after dinner, I sat in the reading chair and it still felt like I was swinging. Not a bad way to spend the day if it weren't for all the noise the neighbors were making!

They were scared because thought they heard a mouse.