Well, we are rapidly approaching the end of our strawberry season.  I don't think we will make it to the very end of May as we had anticipated, but we did get an early start and the weather is turning hot.  We have been very successful this first season and are very happy with the community's response to our strawberry patch.  Lara and I have been run ragged and are looking forward to a short break to recover.  But before that break, I will mow down the strawberries and plant the cantaloupes so we can get the second crop produced before next fall's strawberry planting operations have to start.  The plant disease issues that so alarmed us early on turned out to be very manageable and we prematurely lost only 100-200 plants.  That is not so bad considering we started with 14000 plants.  Our pond is down about 1 foot so we should have adequate water supplies to carry us through the summer...hopefully.  We will break ground shortly to expand our strawberry field and that  may require more water consumption.  More later...