A whole lot of planting going on

The new job responsibilities have been challenging and have given me a new reason to go to work each day.  Sometimes there is some frustration.  There are long hours.  A greenhouse alone is long hours in the spring, but the City of Milwaukee runs a nursery operation on 160 acres as well.  I came into the job and work was almost a month behind.  I know will will never catch up now, but each day priorities were set and reached.  Some days fell short due to weather and breakdowns, but we just move on and do the best we can.
I got some amount of gardening done in between the work hours and a spring cold.  The lingering cough has kept me from going "balls to the walls" with gardening on the usual Memorial day blitz.  I have been doing a fair amount of plant eviction and getting things acclimated.  The weather is running about 2 weeks or more in Milwaukee with bloom times so far.  It postponed moving many plants out, but I had done so much more late seeding that the timing is working out beautifully so far.
The veggie garden is about 50% planted as I have several cold crops going.  It has been a good season for those.  I have tomatoes and peppers in the basement yet.  I am waiting another 2 weeks for planting out of those.  I am doing a little soil solarization on the tomato bed right now.  I was fortunate to have a 3' x 20' piece of clear plastic on hand to lay over the bed after pulling out the weeds and snatching up a few of the reseeding annuals from last year's flowers.  I am swapping out the two planting spots this year and putting the tomatoes in the back yard and enjoying a little bloom along the driveway.
I have pulled up liner and filled in my little pond this year.  I did not feel the desire to scrub the algae off the stones and fish out the leaves.  I have another pump set up for falling water, I just have to put it together.  I will have the option to move it around then and put it away from the leaf and petal fall as the season's dictate.  I now have a nice pile of pretty rocks to do something interesting with.
I am also trying to initiate the mushroom growth on my spruce logs.  I innoculated them with chicken-of-the-woods mushroom spawn.  It will take about 6 months to know if I have been successful.
I think I have caught up on my journal for the time being.  I promise, pictures of the new work area soon.