Anti-Raindance Time

It is hot stuff down here!  It's also rainy-stuff down here, so no matter that 5 of the week's 7 days are over 90 degrees, the brief rain storms that hit during those rainy days dump enough water on the ground to make us put off planting yet another week. We are really behind, my friends, and unlike the tomato debacle of my last cry-fest entry there is no one to blame but the rain, or the fates, or the big guy upstairs (cue this little number from the Book of Mormon musical). The ground is too wet to till up new beds with the tractor and just when it seems like it will be dry enough, you know-- give it one more day! later this afternoon! 30 minutes of super heavy rain comes down and all our plans turn to dust (or mud). So it goes. I'm scared we might not have watermelons! Or flint corn! Or beans! Keep your fingers crossed and do a little anti-raindance if you've got the gumption.

This week I'm housesitting for some neighbors and frankly it feels like I'm on vacation. For starters, here I am on the internet! woh! Their house is also beautiful and sunny and smells like my aunt's house in Hawai'i (and now like my house in Hawai'i with the smells of cake and bacon tacked on. mmmm).
And it's so clean. That trailer I live in at the farm is pretty grungy, truth be told. Mustard and I clean it all the time but still it manages to fall into disarray ten hours later. It's like there are little grunge-fairies who sneak in through the broken front door while we're down in the fields and sprinkle the place with caked mud, dirty tissues, a veritable confetti of food scraps and a sink full of dishes. We need a trailer maid, I think.
House sitting is also giving me the opportunity to sing pretty loudly/ theatrically with no danger of glares and eyerolls from Brian. Have you heard this Adele cd all the kids are talking about? She's pretty good, even if all she sings about is her broken heart. Adele, Neko, Shakira, shake it shake it shake it.
  I'm going to drive over to the trailer after I go out to the backyard here and pick some strawberries and will drop off the strawberry rhubarb cake I made last night and pick up some stuff for my first day of preserving so far this year (hooray! Surpluses!) I probably won't play trailer-maid too much on my day off today, but we shall see how much those little fairies trashed the place before I decide.