I've decided to give up on my pleas for a break from the rain.  We did get 24 hours of partial sun on Saturday which mostly dried three loads of laundry and brought the first blush of red to a few tomatoes.  And then Sunday brought another deluge, filling all of the puddles back up and dripping onto our kitchen floor.

I could whine and complain, but the truth is that the best farmers roll with the punches.  If they get record low July temperatures, they plant more cool season crops.  While I gave up on lettuce as soon as the first heat wave hit, my garden mentor just kept planting and is still eating sweet lettuce.  Time to follow her lead and focus on the fall garden!

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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