An update from down on the farm

Have not said much about the house and barn project lately. Since I am up early and the better half is still snoozing, I sit here with a cup of coffee thinking about STUFF. Don't you just hate it when you wake up real early and can not go back to sleep? So, I will give an up-date on what is happening down on the Sugar Farm.
Thanks to my buddy, Norman (Stug) Pierce, we are getting the barn wired for lights and electricity. He and I have been working when we can running conduit and wires. Soon we can say, Let there be light. As for the house, well that is another story. Janene and I labored to get the dirt and sand fill under the house, thinking Peanut was going to get started soon on the framing. How wrong that was. Well, you see Peanut has been very sick. Between being sick and all the rain, he called yesterday and said he is so behind in his jobs that he may be another three months getting around to us.... ugh. Well back to the drawing board. We are now talking to more framers. Who knows when we can start now?
As for the FARM. The citrus trees for the most part may have survived the cold freeze. Although the Lime and lemons may not make it. They look a little sick without leaves and the bark turning yellow. I got some blue berry bushes and grape vines from my friend Bill Davis. Maybe if the rain stops soon and the ground dries enough, we can get them planted. The garden has got way too much rain too. I had high hopes for some new potatoes, but thanks to the abundance of rain I do believe they may not make it. Can you believe we have had so much rain this winter?The farm is beginning to look more like a lake. Onions and garlic are surviving the wet though. And the cabbage is looking good in spite of the soggy ground. Got some herbs started in the garage, got high hopes for them. Just my luck, we have had such mild winters, and dry weather for so long, then when I start planting stuff we get the coldest freezes and wettest weather in years. Soon it will be good Friday and we will try for planting the rest of the garden. Wish me luck.
Oh, cousin Monroe Nelson told me that the bamboo bush he has at his house originally came from my father-in-law's farm. He dug some of it up from in front of the old barn. He is going to give me some to plant. He also gave me to display an old pull plow that came from Grandaddy Palmers. My daddy-in-law plowed many of acres with the old plow. Years ago, I dug up some of the banana trees out by the old hay barn. I have moved and transplanted them everywhere we have lived. Now I have them planted by the new barn. I want to preserve as much history as I can of the old farm in the memory of James Palmer. He may have been a father-in-law, but in reality he was like a father, he was a best friend, a mentor and a very wise man. He made me feel like his real son. I will have to write about him some time and tell you about what a great guy he was.
As you see, now much to report. Just fighting the winter blues. Can not wait for the spring and pretty days to come. Maybe then we can get some real progress going. Like they say, its always some thing and it is never easy. And thats it

from down on the Sugar Farm.