Rain and Turtles

So the rain dance worked!! It pouring this afternoon ...at least an inch of rain! All the little planties and most of all, the sweetcorn is safe for at least another couple of weeks. It was was sooo hot leading up to today!! Must have been 32C in the shade!! Yikes and this is only May! Yesterday out in the fields planting potatoes and harvesting rhubarb was bearable. There was a cool breeze...today was humid and hot. We logged off work after lunch and some went off to the lake for a dip, Ken fell asleep on the couch and I studied tomato trellises!
Another neat thing happened on the farm yesterday and today and probably for the next few days. The mummy snapping turtles decided that it was time to lay their eggs. We must have seen at least half a dozen beauties here and there..hard at work laying eggs. Emilie called the eggs "gobstoppers"!! I actually kept an eye on a a big Mama from about 5:30AM till she was done at about 9!! Check her out! Its the turn of the painted and spotted turtles next!