I got up yesterday to the incessant ringing of the phone. It was the local farm supply store calling to tell us that we needed to get there as quick as possible because our new order of chicks arrived, and other customers were already interested in buying them all. The Mrs and I got ready and stepped outside only to find this weird wet stuff falling from the sky, and it was falling by the bucketful! I think someone said it's called "rain". Needless to say, we haven't seen a good downpour in over 2 years.
As we slowly drove to the store, we began to count how many driveways were washing into the road..........yeah, we tend to do strange things to avoid the boredom. We got 20 new hatchlings to add the the flock of 14 adults and the 10 Amercuana's we bought last month. It may seem like a lot, but we have problems with predation in our area. If it isn't a raccoon, it's neighbor dogs that get through our fence.
The rains lasted into early afternoon, and then we went outside to see if we had any damage. We found this guy drying out on the phone pole: 
Needless to say, the chickens were all under trees and real quiet!
Now, down to the hoophouse: This Black Krim was planted in March. It was such a cute little plant when we bought it: 
Mrs S is standing beside it. She's 5ft tall.
The "Vintage Wine" Tomatoes are bearing a lot of fruit also. 
I planted my other tomatoes on 2ft centers, but apparently, that isn't enough. These are a variety of determinate and indeterminate plants: 
The Collard Greens and Swiss Chard are left over from last fall's planting. They survived this years mid winter by just being covered with a plastic drop cloth: 
In the greenhouse, various pepper plants are producing nicely:
Jalapeno's 
The Tabasco Tree - I started this plant from seed back in 2008: 
Habenero: 
and Bell Peppers: 
We harvest two cauliflower this past week. One was used as a salad, and the other is waiting for the pot: 
Oh yeah, before I forget.......the little furballs brought this in: 
A Giant Centipede.
The Mrs saw it and screamed like a banshee, cats scattered everywhere (except for the culprit who was sooooo proud of bringing it in the house). The Mrs continued to make various strange squeeling and grunting sounds while dancing around, never taking her eyes away form this poor creature.
For some reason, I'm not allowed to lightly walk my fingers up the Mrs' back for the rest of the day......... :)