We finally got some good rain.  The gardens love it!! I have almost all the potatoes up and looking good.  Now we need to watch the weather closely and if a frost is coming we will go down and hill the dirt up over the green potato plants.  I have to do this anyways so the potatoes grown beneath the soil but I could wait if no frost comes.  It is much too early to think that there will be no more frost.  When we went to town this week I heard several people talk about putting out tomato plants.  I wish them luck but  it is really much to early for that,  just a light frost can kill them and they will have to start all over again.  We try to wait until the black berries bloom and that is mother natures way of saying it should be safe now to set out tender plants.  Tomorrow we will get a truck load of manure from Mr Rigsby.  He is so nice, he loads it on the truck for us and gives us as much as we want for free.  I always try to bring him something to eat to say “thanks”.  This time I have ham and cheese country buttermilk biscuits for him.  Today I made an apple pie with cheese in the crust.  It came out very good but I am going to try not to eat it, I really need to lose some weight!!    We have some apple blossoms open finally.  We have waited so many years to get an apple, maybe this will be the year.  There were a few pear blossoms also but only one cluster on the bartlet so don’t really think we will get any pears.  We can hope tho, right?  This is my cellar shelves with my canned goods on them for last year.  It won’t be long now before I will be canning again.  We put up enough for all the vegetables we eat all year, either canned or frozen and then some for our kids too.  We love canning and love the results too.  It is the only way you can get taste vegetables with no salt in them.   This is the last building that Norman built.  Now if we ever get the weeds all dug out and the tomatoes planted he wants to build a tool shed for down at the large garden so we don’t have to carry all the tools back and forth.  Most of the tools we already have two or more of so it will just need to be a building to put them in that we need.  Oh, the grapes are starting to sprout and it looks like we have lost one vine.  Last year the arbor broke so we cut the grapes back and put in a new arbor.  5 out of the 6 seem to have like the change but we won’t do anything with the one that looks dead for a month or more to be sure.  Sometimes it is just the plant that is not too happy but then comes around, we will see.  Have a great day.