So what have we been doing lately? Picking peas! This is three days worth of peas. We're not going to have a pea tsunami, but we are having a slow rising flood of peas. I think tomorrow it will start to recede. Good thing too because the green beans are coming on! Usually the peas are done before the beans are ready but the peas are a week behind and the green beans are on time. I froze all these peas.
It was a wonderful day. Just perfect weather. In the evening, we went to baseball practice. Two of the coaches are coming every Wednesday night during the summer and are having practice for anyone who wants to come. The boys are enjoying it, especially Nathan who jumps at any chance to play baseball.
Nathan made a bet with one of the coaches. If the Cardinals won 2 games of the series with the Detroit Tigers, Coach would wear a Cardinals hat all through practice. If the Tigers won 2 games, Nathan would wear a Tigers hat through practice. Nathan lost. He consoled himself with wearing the Cardinals World Series shirt.
It was a wonderful day. Just perfect weather. In the evening, we went to baseball practice. Two of the coaches are coming every Wednesday night during the summer and are having practice for anyone who wants to come. The boys are enjoying it, especially Nathan who jumps at any chance to play baseball.
Nathan made a bet with one of the coaches. If the Cardinals won 2 games of the series with the Detroit Tigers, Coach would wear a Cardinals hat all through practice. If the Tigers won 2 games, Nathan would wear a Tigers hat through practice. Nathan lost. He consoled himself with wearing the Cardinals World Series shirt.
3 comments:
Ahh, so you were done with baseball except for the optional for fun ongoing baseball?!
It's probably good for you that you don't have a pea tsunami but I have to admit, as a bystander, I was sort of looking forward to it, perhaps just because of it's very cool name.
Yes, we're done with the competative baseball. Several of the coaches thought it would be good for the boys to continue practicing their skills throughout the summer. And one practice a week is just right for us. Especially on a night like tonight. It was a pleasure sitting in the stands knitting and watching the boys and talking to another mom who stayed and watched as well.
Pea tsunami is a great name. When you are picking peas for an hour, you have plenty of time to think up cool names like that. And sometime I do feel like I am being swamped by the garden. The boys are big helps with the garden but I still don't trust them enough to adequately clean the lettuce or the peas to my standards and so I'm having to do it. They are good at picking beans so I won't have to do too much of that. I have to sometimes remind myself that all this work now is worth it when I pull out a bag of garden peas in the dead of January.
oh, nathan's good. pretty clever. i see a career as a lawyer for that man in the future. assuming, of course, that he doesn't get drafted into MLB.
"pea tsunami." i really like that! i'm going to start taking "tsunami" on to other words. very nice. i remember years ago you dh once described something as a "rogue X." i think it was a "rogue wave." i was so taken with the word rogue that for the next few years i used it as often as possible.
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