The Tomato Whisperer

Maybe SoilMan is trying to make up to the tomato plants for leaving them out in a hailstorm. No harm done as far as I can see. He has also planted radishes, spring onions, lettuce, peas beans, eggplant, squash and potatoes.

We had to postpone our happy hour with Dan and Tobi yesterday because it was raining at the appointed hour. The weather is beautiful today and it looks like we might be able to pull off our happy hour with Dan and Tobi. Dan is baking bread today, so in addition to their own wine and glasses they are bringing three kinds of sourdough bread for us to taste test...I'm not sure what the best physically distanced practices are for taste testing them will be. There have been no directives about that.

We walked around the upper circuit which starts at the top of  our field on the other side of the fence. The grass has gone from green to brown, and will soon need to be mowed in compliance with Cal Fire directives. At the same time that John emailed the engineer who will be installing our solar storage battery, he was emailing John. Their messages crossed somewhere in the either, but they have both ascertained that we are all alive and well and are assuming that now that the county is allowing all forms of construction they will also be opening the permit office.... 
 
Jim arrived at the door last night with wine and chocolate...and the report that flour, sugar toilet paper and paper towels are all obtainable at the Safeway. There is now a meat and chicken shortage due to the closure of processing plants in the Midwest, but since Petaluma used to be known as the the chicken capital of the world and there are dairy farms and cow pastures from here to the coast, it would seem to me that those items could somehow be made available. John seems quite concerned about it but he is much more of a carnivore than I am.