Very soggy

Well, it was the wettest May on record ever in Vermont, and now the wettest June in over 100 years. The result is we are very wet. Just this week we had 3 inches on Monday, 1 inch or so Tuesday night, and now they are predicting thunderstorms for this afternoon with high winds and hail. Great. . .

You can read all about it here, here, and and here.

Since people have been asking, I thought I would report that we are actually more fortunate than most. Our land is pretty well drained -- some veggie and dairy farms up here are basically wiped out for the season. But even we are feeling the impact of all this rain. We have tomato diseases in the greenhouse created by too much moisture and not enough sun. Our field is a mess because we haven't been able to plant our successions as planned, we haven't been able to mechanically cultivate our weeds as planned, and there is one whole section of our field (our wet spot) that we haven't been able to access at all yet. So while we aren't wiped out, our yields are down (particularly our tomatoes), our consistency will be way off, and our disease and weed problems are way up.

What I am learning is that every year something will go wrong. No matter what. That is hard for the perfectionist in me to accept. But it is the truth. So I need to learn to roll with the punches more, and figure that in the long run it all evens out. Because every year some things will go very very right, and things do, in fact, have a way of evening out. And in the meantime, we are doing fine, and having a blast. Just check out the puppet show post below.