We had some wonderful and much needed rain from Friday afternoon through midnight. The field needed it and it gave me the chance to catch up on some much needed sleep. With sleep in hand, I was up more at my normal time instead of sleeping in til 7 or 8 like I have the last few weekends. Yeah, as a new farm the office job is still paying most of the bills so weekends are still weekends.

Getting up more on time let me get back to my Saturday morning routine. I like to take the 15 minute drive over to Jefferson to hit the Jefferson Pastry Shoppe first thing when they open and get apple fritters. They make the best apple fritters! In the same parking lot is Hemps Meats where they have wonderful sausage among other things. On the way over to Jefferson I passed one of our local farms that had sweet corn out in the back of their Gator, so I stopped on the way through and put my $3 in the coffee can and picked out my corn. On the way back I dropped off some corn and apple fritters for Mom and Dad and then back home for breakfast.

The drive is very pleasant, mostly lined with farm fields. At that time of the morning the sun is just coming up and with the rain there was a heavy dew on everything, so it was light and sparkles everywhere. Now its time to get to work. I like Saturdays.