And We're Off!

The weekend before this last one we got our strawberries in the ground. We had help from various family members and the weather couldn't have been better. It took 5-6 of us 6 hours to plant 3000 plants and then finished it up on Sun. planting the last 1000. Of course that week I worked 5 straight at my job. I had to keep moving for a couple days there or my legs would stiffen up and start screaming. Usually break time and lunch are welcome events, but not with sore leg muscles. As I predicted our daughter-in-law worked like a trooper. She had several of us making sure she wasn't over-doing it, but she didn't take any more breaks than the rest of us. Oh the days of youth!
The Killdeer chicks are about the size of their parents now and still stick pretty close to them and to the backyard. When I'm not watching them I watch our Hummingbirds or Oriole. We put out feeders on our deck and when we're outside we get buzzed pretty often. They sure are feisty little things. I have yet to find a nest though.
My husband is finishing his last day at the local hospital for his internship and will be back to Safeway in another town on Weds. We actually got to carpool twice during his two-week stint. In a month he'll be done with school. Yippee! He's asked me a few times if I thought I'd continue to work after he's done. I figure as long as we need the health insurance I'll stay where I'm at. I do plan to drop down to part-time though once he gets a full-time job. We've been having opposite schedules and different days off and I don't like it. Call me crazy, but after almost 30 years of marriage I like spending time with my husband.
We're suppose to have a pretty good stretch of nice weather, about 5 days of no rain, so yesterday I went out and weeded 3 flower beds and my husband mowed the front and back lawns. The grass was literally 2 feet high in spots and wet. The flower beds were so full of weeds I could hardly tell where some of the flowers were. I did plant a couple mini rosebushes and a Rhodie while I was at it. You would think that living on a farm I would've developed a green thumb. NOT! Most plants I bring home don't survive. They tell me I have to water them fairly often. Huh. Believe me it's not for lack of trying. I have planted and replaced several plants over the years in the same spots to see if I could get something to grow there. We're talking of expanding our backyard and that will entail moving 3 established plants. Yikes! I'm not so sure about this. Especially since one, a lilac, is a cutting from a bush that ancestors brought from back east and is the only bush left in the family that we know of. I'm really nervous about moving it but it hasn't done well where it is and needs to be moved anyway. Pray for me, or better yet, pray for the lilac.
We should be getting our raspberry starts soon. The craziness continues it seems. I'm giving a baby shower for my daughter-in-law on Sat. and my husband says the berries should be here then. Really! There's only 600 of them. I'm sure he'll get them done in no time.