While picking up sticks and cleaning out brush, Johnny found this…

We finished planting just in time before the rains came last Friday and already, the soybeans have reached their little heads out of the soil. It is pretty amazing how strong their little epicotyls and cotyledons are. The corn is looking great too. But with all the wonderful rain and warm sunshine comes weeds too. A coser look on crop counts and weed identification in a future post.

Spring now feels like summer and my grandma’s old lilac bushes are in full bloom. Their fragrance fills the air, and the house when the windows are open. Lilacs are the Midwest’s version of Magnolias in SoCal. Fragrant and plentiful.

And I’ve got to stick this pic in of the four little spring kittens. They are such little fluff balls. I’ve called them Eeney, Meney, Miney and Mo.