Workout Injury and Garden Update

Apparently I pulled my left hamstring yesterday morning while doing a leg workout.  I didn't realize this yesterday (during the first day of school), but last night I woke with pain every time I rolled over in bed.  Needless to say, I did not get a good night's sleep.  I hobbled around this morning and took a break (obviously) from working out.  Thankfully, by the end of the school day it had loosened up quite a bit and felt much better.  I may take some Aleve tonight to make sure that I get a decent night's sleep even if it stiffens up again.  I'm seeing some upper body workouts in my near future while I let this heal.

Here you see today's picks from the garden (minus the pear, which was given to me by a colleague).  Lots of cherry tomatoes, 7-8 peppers, several large slicing tomatoes, a couple of romas, and two yellow squash.  The garden is definitely slowing down.  Charles has pulled out all the corn, the squash bugs have claimed our squash plants and pumpkin vines and have now moved on to the tomatoes.  I'm throwing out more diseased and rotten tomatoes than I'm harvesting.  All the plants now have blight almost all the way up.  Their days are definitely numbered.  The watermelon vine still looks good, and the squash and zucchini that I planted late have come up, though I don't know that they're going to flower and produce fruit.  My late planting of lettuce and greens is also emerging, although it's surrounded by both watermelon vine and many, many weeds (as are the pepper plants with some fruit still remaining and the sweet potato vines that may or may not have any tubers hiding beneath the surface).  Ironically, now that the sweet potatoes are surrounded by weeds, the bunnies can't find them to much on, so they're bigger now than they've been all season.

While I was harvesting in the garden, Hannah was inside reading the script for The Sound of Music.  Yesterday she talked with the producer and musical director for the show, and they offered for me to be a nun in the production so that she would feel more comfortable being in it.  I talked with her about it last night to see if she would be in the play with me, and she asked to see the script so she could see how many times Gretl is on stage.  She's read through a portion of Act One and will likely keep reading tomorrow.  We all desperately want to see her participate in this production!  It would be so neat to see her on stage in such a classic musical.