Garden priorities

Running:
What a change in weather over this past week.  Right now is more like August not May.  My youngest daughter ran in her HS Division 1 Regional track meet last night.  She has been doing quite well as a Freshman.  She ended up 10th place in the 400 meter dash with a 1:06 time.  If she went to a Division 4 school this time could be good enough to maybe even get to State.  For now the spring track season is done.  I'm looking forward to a few runs with her over the summer in preparation for the fall XC season.  

My postings continue to be infrequent, so to recap the last week of activity.  Monday was an off day as has been my pattern this year for the most part.  Tuesday I got out for a lunch time run of 7.5 miles in 59:59.  Wednesday I ran the same route again during lunch.  This time I tried to pick up the pace and treat it more like a tempo style run.  I ended up running the 7.5 miles in 55:45. This is the fastest I've run it all year.  Not bad considering all the hills.  Thursday I again ran the same route in a more pedestrian 1:2:36.  Friday I worked just part of a day from home.  I got out for a morning run of 10.5 miles in 1:25:16.  Saturday the weather starting turning a bit warmer.  I again got out fairly early and ran 15 miles in 2:9:22.  Sunday morning was really muggy with some fog.  I got out for 12 more miles in 1:37:01.   That got me to an even 60 miles for the week.  Yesterday was really a hot day with temps over 90 in Brookfield.  I went out anyway for a short run of only 5 miles.  I didn't even take my Garmin or watch and just did it comfortably as possible in the heat.  It's nice to have a water stop at a park I usually run through on days like this.  If I had to guess I probably did the run in a little less than 45 minutes.  So through 5/24: 
WTD 5
MTD 181
YTD 1099
ODO 26,265

Hunting:
I decided to let the brassica's I had planted in my food plot last year keep growing.  They have all gone to seed and stand 4 to 5 feet high.  The bright yellow flowers were pretty cool.  The height and thickness seems to be holding the weeds and crabgrass down.  For now I'm not touching it.  I will decide in a couple  months about mowing, tilling, and replanting.  Time for fall planting is late August or early September anyway and I have lots of other things to take care of.  

Gardening:
Right now is one of those times of the year where I wonder if I will ever catch up on yard/garden work.  There is so much to do at my place.  I'm trying to take what time I have to take care of priority items and then take advantage of what time blocks and the weather give me.  Besides the usual maintenance of pond, pool, cutting grass, and general maintenance a lot has happened over the past week.  I have the garden completely tilled as of Saturday and have the rows ready for planting.  I was able to get tomatoes, peppers, and sweet potato plants all in.  I also began planting of the large seeds such as sweet corn, peas, and beans.  I will need to wait for a little cooler temps before planting small seeds, such as carrots and lettuce.  It's still fine as we are not into June yet which is when I like to be done.  Sunday I had a guy come out and till my pumpkin growing area with his tractor.   It looks great right now and took him about two hours.  It was too hot to plant anything down in the garden Sunday so I spent the time planting all the flower pots and hanging baskets.  I could do this under the shade of the trees.  I was still wet from the inside out though before I was done.  I then took the power washer and sprayed the entire pool deck and side walk area.  This is really a much bigger job than you would think getting all the dirt and mildew completely off before moving any furniture down.  Glad to have it done, but I would have rather been in the garden.  The rest of the week I'll just be poking around an hour here and there as work and other schedules allow.   If the weather holds out at least I will have a three day weekend coming up to make a good dent in the chores left to finish.