Rainy Day Monday

I tried to beat the rain.  I knew it was coming, and I had lettuce and spinach seeds to plant.  I hurried out to the garden, prepared half of one raised bed, and planted a spicy mesclun mix and two types of green romaine, "Winter Density" and "Parris Island".  I sowed the seeds amid baby volunteer lettuce plants that had seeded themselves from last spring's crop.

I pulled up the shrub-like Thai basil and was preparing the soil for the spinach patch when the wind at the front of the storm hit.  The sky was a menacing dark gray.  I dropped the rake, gathered up the seeds, hollered up the dog, and barely made it to the back door before the downpour came.