Spring melt is happening up in the mountains.  May is always a nail biter here on the plains.  It is almost a certainty that we will have severe thunderstorms and hail through Memorial Day weekend.  This year was no exception.  This is why A: we got the greenhouse (to protect the more delicate plants) and B: why we don’t plant outside until Memorial Day weekend.  I was lucky to escape hail damage to the truck on the way to the airport to pick up my mother.  I was pelted with golf ball sized hail and it made it impossible to see or hear and even in four wheel drive there was enough ice on the road to make me slide around.  Of course today it was 75 and sunny and we spent the day weeding out the big garden to get ready to plant.  The damage to the thistle plants was apparent (not that we cared) as many were broken off.  Looking forward to getting past this part of the year.  It is always a bit nerve wracking.

Tomorrow our newest layer hens head out to the coop and on Memorial Day the broilers head out into the tractor.  Its always an adventure and we play Farmville here for real!