Deligation?

Well I'm off today for Albuquerque for work and pleasure related activities. I'll be gone for 8 days! My husband and kids will join me on Thursday, so we have lots of relatives/friends watching the house, pets, garden, etc. I'm a little nervous about the state of my garden on my return!!! It could be either wonderful (veggies much bigger, lots of bowls of lettuce to eat) or disastrous (1/2 plants dead from no water and the other half sickly and taking a month to recover). Man - it ain't easy being a farmer!