Season opener!

It's looking like the first outdoor varsity competition of the spring season will take place on Tuesday this week. As it stands, the B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team opens their schedule with a road game at Paynesville. I'll know more about this as Tuesday arrives! I still have a small hangover from the weather that smacked me over the head last week. Between the ice on Sunday (March 30) and then the two-day snowfall in the middle of last week, it kicked my butt! I do not like snow in April! The moisture we received is valuable and needed, yes, but snow in April just keeps me out of the garden.

In other news...I've been swamped! By the weekend, or more specifically, by Friday and Saturday. They were grueling days with both region robotics and subsection speech. I did a rough tally of my photos and I got past 350 for just those two events. Yikes! Then I took about at least 60 more photos to review and pick from at the Catholic United Financial Aid breakfast in Elrosa on Sunday.

I found this fascinating...
Did you know? In the Brooten Review newspaper, going back 100 years this week, the April 9 issue that year published a fascinating story about how a Carver County (near Victoria, MN) immigrant farmer from Germany established North America's first winter-hardy variety of alfalfa. I doubt I can re-print the entire article this week. It is rather long. Perhaps another week this month!

Afternoon update:
Looks like all systems go for the fastpitch team's opener today. As of 3 p.m. on Tuesday, we have full sunshine with a cool 44 degree temperature. There's a slight south/southeast breeze. Brr!! We'll see how it goes at Paynesville, where first pitch is set for 4:45 p.m.