Snapping Green Beans

I want to tell you I love everything about the garden, but alas, it's not true.  I dread green bean snapping time (as do my kids).  I like green beans, but I wish my husband wouldn't plant so many.  Two or three plants would suffice, not twenty.  Ugh.

Image courtesy of Honeytree Photography

The snapping is actually my favorite part.  What I dread is picking the beans in blazing heat, then having to blanch them.  If I put it off long enough my husband will pick them, my kids snap and I only have to blanch.