A Short Ride and Gardening

So does gardening count as an outdoor sport? Probably only if your over the age of 65. Anyways FGB (who from now on would like to be called Dirt Magnet Jr. or just Dirt Jr.) and I went for a 19.5 mile ride and averaged 15 miles per hour. The wind was pitching a steady 10 miles per hour from the straight south so of course we headed south and a bit East. A good ride with only one minor mishap, Dirt Jr. ran over a dead possom thankfully he missed the skunk.

The recent rains have kept us indoors and now that the sun is shining again we are relegated to catching up on yard work and gardening. I mowed our 2/3 acre of assorted weeds and pathetic grass with a push mower while Dirt Jr. used the neighbors riding mower to cut the neighbors 1 1/2 acre lot. With all of the habanero peppers and tomatoes that our garden has been producing we have been making and canning salsa like a home factory. We've canned about 15 quarts and 10 pints of salsa and pickeled 8 pints of peppers, not to mention the salsa that I have already consumed and there are more Peppers and Tomatoes on the bush/vine that are just about ready. We should have enough salsa to keep both Dirt Jr. and I gas powered for the next year. By the way 5 of the pints we canned were dubbed Stupid Hot Salsa as each had 10 peppers in them (a regular batch has 2).