We had a really good week this week. It was rainy and drizzly for most of the week, which meant cooler temperatures but wetness of course. On Monday we finished thinning the radishes! We started work on weeding the lettuce. We stopped working a little early because of Memorial Day, but it was wasn't a blazing hot typical Texas Memorial Day, that's for sure. On Tuesday, we cleaned some catch ditches in the rain. I started coming down with whatever the kids had when we babysat them last week. Boo! On Wednesday, we turned on the gravity fed pasture irrigation and built a mineral feeder for the sheep who love to knock over their old one. When we put the newly built heavy duty feeder in their pen, they tried to kick it over immediately. Apparently, kelp meal and diatomacious earth (microscopically sharp mineral that kills parasites) tastes better when kicked around with a poopy foot. We built a compost bin for the compost toilet, cleared out the yurt space, thinned the squash, and potted up our pepper plants. On Thursday, I slept in a little to get rid of my cold while Grant weed-eated the entire farm practically. I weeded the cutting bed and organized the greenhouse later in the morning. Greenhouse update: We have tomatoes! Also the cucumbers, cantaloupes, cabasa melons, pumpkins, and zucchini are starting to come up. Then we started weeding the hedgerow (a strip of flowers in the field that provides habitat and food for beneficial insects.) All Friday we worked on the yurt platform. This is to be the housing for future interns. It is a deck with a circular framed tent-like thing. They are very popular housing here. People can even rent them at state parks instead of cabins. We had our first thunderstorm. There was lightning and thunder and some rain. A very nice end to the week, but we probably won't be able to put the tomatoes and tomatillos outside tomorrow. On Saturday, we had our inevitable cow adventure. After wondering what Saddie was barking about and the sheep were bleating about, Grant looked outside and saw the cows traipsing down the drive way, through the home garden, and some lettuce down to the creek. We ran outside with Tim and herded them back to their pasture. Our weekly adventure.