The weather's finally been beautiful and it's time for fun in the sun! YAY!
We finally got the garden in today, which is a load off. I don't like getting it in so late, it should have been planted a week ago, but we finally got someone to plow it up real good on Friday. The same guy also sold us a tiller, so yay for that. I've been gardening by hand forever, so it'll be a real treat to have a tiller to do the rough stuff for me this summer. I still have to put in the potatoes and tomatoes, but everything else is in. I haven't gotten around to buying seed potatoes yet and I only want to put in a few this year since I don't have much luck with them - our land is too clay-ee or limey or something and they always end up small and not worth the effort it takes to plant, weed, pick potato bugs and dig the up. I'll just buy a big 50 lb bag from someone this fall. I screwed up buying tomato plants and accidentally bought cherry tomatoes instead of real ones. I hate cherry tomatoes, hubs is the only one who likes raw tomatoes, so he's the only one to eat them and to pick all those stupid little things to can them is a pain in the butt. I'm going to pitch the plants I got by accident and pick up some good ones and get those in the ground asap. I've still got tons of canned tomatoes from last year, but it just doesn't seem like a real garden without a few tomato plants out there. Besides, I love eating the green ones fried up and that's something you can't store for winter eating. Some treats are meant for summertime only.
Yesterday we went to watch the track and field team compete at sectionals. WE didn't do, real great on the long jump, well, he did all right for what he usually does, but the winners were jumping at over 20 feet and WE's goal was to get over 19 this year. One of our girl disc throwers broke our school's record, so she was pretty excited, she's going on to the state competition as is one of our girl hurdlers who took first in both the 100 and 300 meter hurdles and our girls high jumper took a 2nd, so we've got 3 girls going on to state in 4 different events. WE's buddy Grant is going on for the 800 meter - Grant is also the kid who took a first in state in wrestling this year, he's a bit of a go-getter. In a surprise move, WE ended up running in the 4X400 relay as well. He didn't run that race at regionals, it was run by an alternate, but the coach decided that WE should run it at sectionals. The boys did awesome and managed to take 5th place, not good enough for state, but good nonetheless. The race was run in two heats, WE's group taking 1st in the 1st, and slower heat. The 7 faster teams ran in the 2nd heat, but in a heartbreaking development, the teams battling it out for 2nd & 3rd place bumped or something, sending one of the kids toppling to the ground hurt and the other team, I believe, was disqualified. It was those two teams dropping out of the race that sent our guys up to #5. It's so sad to see something like that happen when you know those kids worked so hard to get there. There were a couple of injuries yesterday. When you get to finals, those kids remaining push themselves so hard that injuries are just going to happen. I'm glad our team all came out of things in one piece.
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