Slight Detour: Sweater Weather

On Thursday I dug out some shorts and found that only two pair from the collection fit somewhat, especially if I tighten my belt.

In my lifetime, I have never had this problem of most of my wardrobe being too big in my lifetime, and when summer rolls around, the challenge of finding clothes to wear in the heat increases.

But wait!

Only one day of wearing shorts and we're back to digging out the winter sweaters.

Happily, I have a fairly good collection of winter clothes.

If I had it my way, we'd be layering the year around because I'm not a fan of extreme heat.

Like my politics, moderation should be the key to everything, especially the weather.

So now, it's back to starting with at least three layers for tops in the morning and shedding as the day goes on and the temperature goes up.

This summer weather in May has my garden plants in a quandary too. My spinach has gone to seed. It's only about four inches tall and pretty skinny.

I don't think spinach likes the heat.

So far, the lettuce isn't balking at the temperature. It's growing nicely, as are my beans and tomatoes. This week I even put out three cucumber plants from the greenhouse, and they are doing just fine.

The real mystery is the pumpkin seeds that haven't sprouted after two weeks in the ground. Last year I had to plant my three pumpkin seeds twice.

Same is true for this year. Yesterday, after deciding the first batch wasn't going to come up, I stuffed three more seeds in the mound next to the barn.

Gardening is always a mystery. It's frustrating, but whatever we can grow always tastes good.

So, I keep at it.

Yesterday turned out to be a basketball-orama.

The Sandpoint Basketball Tournament brought in players, coaches, families and friends to the high school and middle school gyms.

I watched a Lake City-Clark Fork game at the middle school and then moved over to the high school to watch Willie's Bulldogs take on and defeat Coeur d'Alene.

It was fun to see the players and their parents again and to start placing some names with the new faces.

While at the tournament, I learned that Willie's team is selling raffle tickets for a 2026 Subaru Crosstrek.

So, of course, I purchased a couple of tickets. Looks like there's plenty of time to purchase some and help out the Bulldogs.

Spending time at the basketball clinic later turned into spending time watching a WNBA game.

I turned the channel to ABC, and, by golly, a game between the Portland Fire and the Indiana Fever.

The Fire were on fire while the Fever seemed pretty tepid.

The Fire are the new WNBA team coached by Willie and Debbie's friend Alex Sarama, and what a game they played.

It was neat to see Alex on the side court and to listen to his interview. One of the commentators called him a basketball savant.

He surely fit the description while coaching his team to 100 points and a significant win over the Fever and Caitlin Clark.

After the game, I learned that the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Oklahoma Thunder to move on to the NBA Championship.

Turns out that even with Chet Holmgren out, the championship game will have a Gonzaga grad playing. That would be Kelly Olynyk. Bill says that means that three years in a row a ZAGS player has been in the Championship.

I guess they put out some pretty good players.

Anyway, lots of basketball yesterday AT THE END OF MAY.