Rainy Sundays

After a warm and sunny Saturday facilitated weed killing and the final push to plant winter squash, carrots, spinach and corn, Sunday provided the drought relief we have been looking for.  It rained off and on most of the day with late day thundershowers pushing our totals to 1 1/2  inches.  Unfortunately, as an amateur farmer, I partake of the fraternity's obsessive belief that someone is out to get us.  The long range forecast for the next ten days is virtually the opposite of the previous five weeks in that showers are predicted nearly every day.  So, no drying weather and crops like strawberries which need warm, sunny weather to finish the fruit will likely taste like sour water if they don't rot on the plant.  I'm going to try and maintain a positive attitude toward the weather, but if the forecast is borne out by the actual rains  it will be tough.