The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Those words will soon be heard as the summer Olympics in Paris begin. Springtime is also the beginning of Major League Baseball with the famous words, “play ball!”

As lovely as Waitsburg is, it’s not Paris or home to an MBL team. When I hear, “Let the games begin,” it’s to announce the start of Daniel’s and my garden competition. As a friend once said, “You guys don’t have a relationship; you have a competition.” She hit that nail on the head!

While Daniel is at work, I have gotten a head start on planting, weeding, and cleaning the beds. However, he has done the dirty work, dragging bags of c...