Exhaustion

This gardening stuff is getting intense. This morning, I picked the third batch of beans, the rest of the peas, (I think) and one heck of a lot of spinach. This afternoon, we dug potatoes and onions. I think we came up with roughly 80 pds. of potatoes. The picking is the easy part. It took me over 2 hours to clean the spinach, leaf by leaf, and freeze. I even tried to pull a stool over to the sink and sit for awhile, 'cause the standing all day was killing me. I picked the first 5 tomatoes today, so at this point we will have enough for salads and eating right out of the fridge. It will probably be another week or two before they start coming so fast I need to freeze for sauce.

Of course, the zuchinni and squash are pretty easy. I tried freezing mixed bags of those last year for casseroles, but it really wasn't the best. The kids (well, some of them) have been asking when I am going to make the casserole with zuchinni, squash, tomatoes and lots of mozarella cheese. I think we can handle that in about 2 days. My squash got a slow start.

Ok, enough garden talk. We had the Minster Baseball tourney Friday and Saturday. Can't believe I sat at a Baseball game on a Saturday afternoon in July with an umbrella and a blanket. They did not make it to the finals on Sunday. Baseball will be ending this next weekend with the Celina tournament. I'm not quite ready for that. I enjoy watching the boys play baseball, except for the rare occassion when one of the boys pitches. I do not enjoy any part of that at all!

We were up bright and early Sunday morning for the Kewpee Triathalon. Lauren and Natalie competed for their second year. We had quite showing from Minster, as I think there were over a dozen Minster people competing. (Jenna is training, but not racing yet.) Both girls did real well. Lauren was second in the 19 and under age group and Natalie was behind her a few minutes, and pulled out third in the same age group. It is an early morning, but because it starts at 8 and took them a little under 2 hours to complete, we were able to grab the trophies, a few Kewpee burgers and make a quick trip home so Lauren could get to 11:30 mass.

The wave of women start their swim.

Lauren is done swimming, and ready to bike 18 miles.

Natalie coming back from the biking.

Natalie finishes under 2 hours.

Well, we are now waiting patiently for Jenna and Lauren to get off work so we can watch the finale of The Bachelorette. Will Jillian choose Ed or Kiptyn, or neither, or both, or maybe Reid, whom she sent home last week? Hmmm, the suspense is killing me!