We could have . .

. . . planted corn today!  But the planter sat in the shed.
The weatherman was calling for heavy rains, possible thunderstorms, and cooler temperatures, so last night we decided we wouldn't even try to plant today.  It's usually not good to work ground or plant just ahead of heavy rains.  As it turned out, it was a warm, dry day with no rain until it started sprinkling at suppertime.
So no corn got planted today.
Our wheat didn't make it through the winter very well.  It looks like we will have to tear up at least half of it, and the other half still looks sickly.

We have made good progress so far this week despite electrical harness problems on our new (to us) planter.  Soil conditions have been good, and we have about 40% of our corn in the ground.  With cool, wet weather predicted for the next week, we don't know if that's good or bad.  Time will tell.

We babysat for Pete and Aria for a long weekend.  They are our parakeet grandchildren.  They make a lot more racket than Pete did as an only child.  And Pete isn't as friendly to me now that he has a playmate.
Fifteen day-old ducklings arrived on the farm on Wednesday.  We didn't order any chicks this year, so we decided to order some ducks.  It's been many years since we have raised ducks, but we enjoy the meat, so we will try it again.

And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
I Kings 4:22,23