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We made quick work at the farm today. Lettuce is getting a break for a couple of weeks or so and it was too wet to harvest basil. The chard is still gorgeous, the green onions are plump as all get out, and the kohlrabi look like purple and green balloons about to burst. But they’re still delicious…not woody.

About that wet thing, it rained most of the morning. The fields weren’t fit to weed because of the mud. I was bummed. This Virgo and borderline neat freak LOVES weeding. Let me at those rascals, I’ll get ‘em outta there. (My husband might beg to differ about me being “borderline.”)

I don’t care about getting wet, but I didn’t come dressed adequately, and it was chilly. By the time we got everything into the barn for box-filling, it was frickin’ dumping. One trip to the car to load up, and I’m soaked to the skin. No big, right? When you sign up to work on a farm, you don’t get to complain about the weather. Truth be told, I like working outside when it’s raining. But…what sucked was that I had to keep the A/C on the whole…way…home to keep the windows from fogging up. I think my lips turned blue before I even got off the gravel road.

In the box this week: green onions, sweet onions, zucchini, summer squash, broccoli, cauliflower, beets, kohlrabi, and chard.

I hope you’re enjoying my week-by-week classic country soundtrack. How about a little Bakersfield sound for ya? I mean, check out that suit.