Life Seldom Slows

I've turned over a bunch of dirt with a shovel (over a period of days), and yesterday I used my Mantis tiller on it to break it up.  If I hadn't needed to stop for breaks because the tiller exhausts me (I'm such a wimp), it probably would have been done in five to eight minutes.  Instead I spent fifteen to twenty minutes.  Then I planted soybeans for edamame. 

N had a class trip to Busch Gardens yesterday and I had to drive him to school and pick him up in the evening.  The bus was late returning so I had to wait an extra 35 minutes for his return.  The trip was with his science class so they could learn about the physics of rides.

Today N is spending the night at the high school for a cancer fundraiser called "Relay for Life."  He's volunteered my good tent for him and his friends.  Mr. K is taking him just before noon because I have to take J to the Girl Scout camp with horses since her troop is doing riding there today and next Saturday.  Mr. K is keeping K since I'll just have to wait at the camp for J to finish, and that will be about 2.5 hours of nothing to do.  I'll probably bring my laptop with a Nancy Drew game installed, my DVD player with a Stargate Atlantis disk in it, and my nutrition textbook so I can try to get ahead on the reading.

We've been getting lots of mulberries this year.  They are ripening so fast we are actually beating the birds to a lot of them.  The kids are going around with purple hands and faces (especially K who is very messy).