The harvest waits for no man. . . or woman!

This year we co-rented a tiller with our neighbors across the street. i like this tradition and i like that it fits in with something a friend recently told me about technology -

"It's not technology that is bad. It's how we use the technology that makes it bad. If the things we have are used to bring us into community then they are good. If we use them for isolation then they are bad."

We use the tiller for our separate gardens, but we have to interact to swap it out and pay and stuff. i love the amount of time together recent economic conditions have brought us! Yes, it's mostly business at this point, but things are deepening.

So yes, the garden is tilled. Most of it was tilled in the rain, but when you rent by the day and there are others waiting on it. . . the season is short and the harvest isn't going to reschedule itself. Tomorrow we start the forced slave child labor and put in the rows and get the broccoli, peas, and sunflowers started. In the meantime the prehistoric rhubarb plant from Amy's family has already gone to seed. . .yes SEED! It's MAY people. Tell me climate change isn't messing with us! We cut the seed sprouts today and hopefully it will continue to grow.

In the meantime the women have taken up a new "cottage industry". They are sewing clothes. Actually they are doing it right now behind me. It's so cool. We were talking earlier about how cool it will be when they are talented enough to start sewing all of our own clothes! That will be *sew* cool!!!!