Curriculum, hoeing, and other family adventures

Today was the day to make purchases.  Lately I have realized just how wonderful online shopping is for the modern farm wife.  Being forced to leave my house once again this week was going to drive me over the proverbial edge.  For those that have the imagery that homeschooling is chaining our children to desks and forcing them to work on repetitions all day until they have raised their IQ scores by 5 points obviously haven't seen my schedule.  We only got half a school day done today, and we were an entire day short (on a 4-day school schedule!) this week, so we have to make it up on Saturday.  Between farm work and travels, playdates and shopping, we haven't been home long enough to catch our breath!  All that to say, we do get out, and sometimes I do have to lose my car keys to keep us at home so we can finish her school year in a reasonable amount of time.
Anyways, I bought R's Core curriculum for 1st grade today.  She is growing up so fast, where did the time go?  Due to our new school schedule that follows the farming time-table more closely, we will go directly from Kindergarten to 1st grade without a break.  I know, I'm a mean-ol' school marm, but I dont' care :)  I like the idea of not having to do school during the 2 busiest months of the year for farming (April and August), but due to all the illness and such, we have to work straight through April, into May, June and July.  But, it will be all new books, and who doesn't love cracking open new books?
My other purchase was a colineal cultivating hoe.  It's basically a fancy-shmancy hoe for shaving off weed seedlings in the garden.  And it was the same price as buying a not-as-nice one at the home improvement store, including shipping!  No running all over town for my specialty garden tool.
In other farming adventures (since that's what the title says), I planted broccoli, peas and lettuce seedlings in the garden this week.  I also planted carrot and radish seeds, and they are sprouting nicely.  We are in the middle of a major drought here, so I think some of my broccoli and peas shriveled up 5.2 seconds after planting, but some made it, and I made it a point to plant double what I really needed for that very reason.  The weather doesn't cooperate well for farmers here, which is why most of the local farms grow cattle, not crops.  But, I have watered extensively and I hope that I've soaked the ground enough so the rest of the seedlings don't shrivel.
There's only 3 more weeks until the average last frost date here.  Woohoo!  That means all of the rest of these seeds that are taking over my dining room can go outside.  I have beans, squash (of all kinds), okra, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, herbs and onions.  And I'm ready for it to be outside so I can actually walk around my table again.  Someday I will have a greenhouse just for this purpose, but for now, the dining room windows will have to do.

Any adventures in your neck of the woods?