~and we're fixing to find out~

We kind of had in the back of our minds that we were hurrying things a bit when we planted twenty tomatoes and peppers in the garden last weekend.  Even as I was placing over a dozen new perennials in the front flower beds, I felt a slight bit of reluctance in doing so.  Yet even knowing that there was a possibility of a near freeze warning for these parts throughout this weekend, we continued on. After a long winter, it just felt nice to be digging into the rich red soil of Texas.

So we did.

Two days ago reality hit when we heard the local television weather guy from Lawton, Oklahoma give his weekend forecast. It didn't look promising and with the thought that the overnight temps would dip down towards the 32 degree mark overnight, we had only one choice if we were going to save what we had planted. Plastic sheeting was in order, and a whole lot of it.

So at the 5 o'clock hour when I arrived home from school, Mike and I began the process of cutting huge strips of plastic to cover over the things that we worked so hard to get into the ground.  The wind was blowing rather briskly, so as we tried to handle the huge sheets we looked more like 9-year old kids playing with a parachute during gym class instead of two grownups trying to save our vegetables and flowers.  It was definitely NOT a one person job and I was beginning to think it wasn't a two person job either.  We stuck with it and about an hour after we started, we were done.

                                               Maybe they will make it.  We had to try.

It's the early morning hours now and even though the clock says 5:30, the sun is far from beginning to rise in the east.  Our forecast is for a much cooler day than it was last Saturday but at least it will make it up to nearly 60 here in this part of Texhoma.  Soon I will go outside and check to see what happened and if any damage came to them all.  A quick check of the weather app on my phone just told me that the current temperature is holding steady at 36 degrees with still a chance for it to drop before the sunrise comes.  Will they have made it?

We're fixing to find out.