look, its true, I can be a little dramatic, it seemed dramatic at the time:

but today brendan (kouku) and leslie, two friends of ours from cote d'ivoire, helped us plant over 100 tomato plants in the past two days, in soil that still resembles a sponge. Rachel and I have another 100 or so to go, trying to reach our total of about three hundred (we did some earlier). Then its on to reseeding lots and lots of greens and scallions and dill, some of the direct seeded stuff that got wiped away.

today the heat turned on too, and it is starting to seem like a place where basil and peppers and eggplant can be happy.