Thursday, May 15, 2008

Busy Busy Busy!

We have planted 12,000 strawberries this far, 8,000 more to go! We ran out of room so tonight we made some big decisions. Since the plants can't be without dirt for so long we have to get them into the ground ASAP! Our options were to plow up some more land so that we could use the planter. We would have to spray something that would kill the grass, but then of course we would have to wait 2 days to let it work. Option part two of that since we don't have time to wait 2 days is to just plow it up and get them planted and fight the grass when it shows up. To me, I didn't like those options.. so I suggested this: We plant by hand tomorrow starting 6 AM and plant till noon take an hour lunch break and then plant for another 6 hours straight. By the end of the day we will have a good idea how well we did and whether we could do it for the next three days or whenever the plants are all planted. Between the two of us we can plant about 200 plants an hour, so we can get done this way in 3ish days and the strawberries will be in the same area, which is much easier to maintain. So prayerfully tomorrow won't be so bad and we won't have to plow anymore land. I'm doing my first load of laundry right now...just wait for it to be done so that I can get some sleep! I'm also starting to work on my kids program material. I'm a little torn as to what to do, but I'm thinking I might just do a series I've done at Riverside before. I've got a few things to line up before that's official though. Also, I've decided against getting the Internet, so I may not get on here as often as I first anticipated...BUT then again, I thought I would have a little more down time. I pray all is well for you at home and I still think of you often, comment and let me know how you are doing, because I wanna be connected!

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