Rainy Days

As we said in our earlier post, it rained in Athens from before sunrise Friday morning until about 11:00 am or so. After the soaking the soil looks a little sad, not nearly as fluffy as it was last night, but hopefully we can get that fixed this weekend. We plan to add a little more soil to each bed to try to use up the 7 cu. yards we had delivered, but it's getting tough. Perhaps we'll have to place an ad on Craigs List to get rid of the rest - "Free dirt, you haul!"

Becky's mom is planning a visit to Athens to check out the new house and has been warned that there will most likely be a certain amount of gardening involved in the weekend. She claims to be "very excited" about the prospect so we hope to have some

After discovering the Digital Macro setting on the camera we were able to get some neat closeups of the new made-in-Vermont rain gauge. Only .6 inches of the 2.0 inches forcasted, but hey, who's counting. It's early spring here in Georgia, and we likely have a loooong year of heat and drought ahead of us so we need as much as we can get in the few months it actually does rain. We're really counting on being able to water vegatables all year regardless of watering restrictions, so everyone keep your fingers crossed!