We finally got two days of rain or should I say drizzle.  We got 5/8 of a inch in the two days so you see nothing got really wet.  I set out the peppers and herbs and Norman planted more beans and lettuce.  The third planting of beans aren’t up yet but when Norman dug down to see if they had died he found they had developed roots so they will be up soon.  I poked under one of the potato plants and found some small potatoes.  We just bought a bag of potatoes so we will eat those first then work on the new ones.  The first planting of beans are in full bloom now so it won’t be long before we are eating and canning those.  The peas have little peas on them now.  If they were snow peas with pods you eat we would be eating those now but we put in English peas so will have to wait a week or two to let the peas in the pods get large enough to eat.  We lost all the peas in the one garden and one pea plant in the second garden before the sonic rodent repelent came.  We put that in this second garden and haven’t lost a single plant since so I guess it really does work.  The first pea bed we planted cucumbers and zuchinni and those are both up.  In the other two pea beds we put in zuchinni and butternut squash in the corners and they are up also.  Today we had beets for dinner.  The beets are getting to be very good size but when I pull enough beets to make a meal the greens are so big and nice we get two meals of greens.  We may have to start freezing some greens too but I hate to as I still have one package of steamed beet greens, two packages of fried been greens and one of spinach in the freezer from last year.  Wish Patty and Becca lived closer so I could share the new harvest with them.  I’d give the Swiss chard to Shirley as she loves that but we have more than we can eat right now.  Shirley will be here the first week in June so she can take a nice big load of the chard home with her.  Yesterday we had a small strawberry short cake for desert.  We didn’t do much for the starwberries this year as I didn’t think there were many there but I find there is alot more than I thought so maybe we will get a couple more short cakes from the patch before they are done.  Still not many grapes tho.  I have spent the last week and a half trying to get the savings accounts up for everyone.  The kids under 18 are no problem, as soon as I get their information I get the accounts up and going.  It is the ones over 18 that is a problem.  I have found a short cut that works well with those who do not have an ING account already but for those who do have one I have to wait until I get one more number from them.  Oh well, it will work out in the end.   It is such a wonderful way to send gifts to the kids.  I could never get something for them that they would like so sending money on a credit card works great.  Alex graduates this month and he is valedictorian of his class and he goes to a large school which makes it even better.  What a great job!!  We got his accounts set up and his gift sent so I know it works easy.  His Dad says he got a great scholarship also and wants to become a doctor.  I hope he sticks to it but it will be a long job but well worth it in the end.  Good Luck, Alex.  Guess that is all the new news from here.  Have a great day.