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The first of the corn and the rest of the beans are going in tomorrow.

I am thrilled to hear progress on your planting front. I have not been able to get a tiller in my corn space since the spring thaw began. I have tilled one of my bean beds more times than I can remember but it is just too wet to plant. My potatoes are just now popping through, and that is really late for me. The snow peas look awesome, and so do my strawberries, they are loaded with blossoms.

My huge bright spot for the week has been one of the orchids my sister sent last summer has survive me and has one bloom that burst out today and a few more to follow. Oh, I can't describe what a relief it was to see that blossom, because I was terrified of taking on the care of orchids.

What kind of corn are you planting? I am personally fond of Bodacious and hope to get it planted when the ground dries out. Until then I am re-potting tomatoes into larger pots until that ground dries out enough for planting and staking.

Well here it is Monday and I'm reading back through the thread and my comments about getting corn and beans in Thursday and Friday and my joke about planting rice a couple years ago.........well long and short of it is that a friend practically begged me last night to plant rice and maybe it would finally stop raining!

It started raining late Wednesday night and except for a couple of hours here and there it has not stopped.

You can tell it's pretty bad when even Fox News Channel is mentioning some of the itty bitty towns in Central Delaware that wereunder mandatory evac orders this morning because of coastal flooding.

The picture below was taken by a friend of mine this morning of the town dock where she lives. It's a little fishing village at the end of the road I live on:

The local TV station is posting pics from all over DelMarVa submitted by viewers of flooding in their area. Thankfully I'm at a "high" spot almost dead center between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic and tend to be spared major flooding, unless the creek that borders our property breaches the bank, so far so good, but I'll have to keep an eye on it at high tide later.