Timing seems to be everything in life but sometimes you can't take the credit for it. It finally got dry enough that I was able to get all my renovating and farming done. I finished putting the seed in the ground on Wednesday afternoon and finish up the farming I was really pushing on. Guess what happened then? On Thursday afternoon and evening we got one inch of rain. Talk about a great deal. This almost guarantees that I will get a stand. <br />n<br />nI planted a mixture of Alfalfa, Crested wheatgrass, Pubescent wheatgrass and Intermediate wheatgrass. I'm hoping the grasses in the mixture will help the hay stand last longer and outgrow the bindweed in the field. I've some indication from other plantings that I have done that the grass helps shade out the bindweed and keeps it from growing as much so it's worth a try. Bindweed will really kill straight alfalfa so I had to try something different in this field.<br />n<br />nThey, the National Weather Service, is talking about another inch of rain over the next 36 hours. I won't complain too much. With the farming caught up I am looking fairly good. Plenty of work to do but I can wait the rain out. All I know is I couldn't have managed my farming any better if I tried. Hell, if I would have tried to manage it better I would have screwed it up I'm sure. I guess Mother Nature is on my side on a rare occasion.<br />n<br />n<strong>Life is about timing. Carl Lewis </strong>