Thursday

Well I'm still holding my breath as we had another NO RAIN day, despite rain clouds all around. This morning as I awakened I noticed blue skies and some sunlight in the tree tops that surround the cabin. Looks as if it may be another dry day on the horizon despite the heavy dew that is dripping from the dormer onto the tin roof.

Wednesday we did very little except for our daily hike to the top of the mountain and then a trip to the library in Sparta. Nancy was out of reading material and while I still had another book I went ahead and picked up another and she 2 more plus I renewed the ones I still hadn't had time to read. I found this author Karen Robards who is very good at keeping the storyline moving right along with tons of action. I highly recommend her writing and storyline.

We made a stop at Becca's coffee shop where we once again picked up a loaf of homemade bread, crutons and some feta cheese. They are now carrying local goat cheeses, organic veggies and some range fed beef as well as home grown pork and lamb that is frozen. I want to try their meat in the near future to compare to what we got from Grayson county. Matt, one of the owners was aware of Grayson meats and he thought the reason their meat was so tough and tasteless was because of the aging process. I'm curious to try their products which is also raised here in the mountains.

We are entertaining and being entertained Friday and Saturday evenings so we stopped at the veggie stand for some goodies plus I found a pack of 4 collard plants which I brought home and immediately got them in the ground in the upper garden. I noticed some new leaves on the beet plants as well as the Swiss chard so with a few more days of drying out these plants may make it despite the ground being very wet. I'm picking sugar peas as well as some green beans. The hot peppers are looking good as well as the sweet potato plants which like all this rain as I found out they are semi-tropical in nature.

I grilled the last of the deer back strap we had in a marinate all day for supper along with some flavored  rice and blackeye peas. Yeow was that ever delicious along with some fresh cilantro. After the cleanup I headed out to walk around the yard and gardens. We noticed the sunset which was a first for some time. I headed in to tune into the Rays who lost to the Orioles and then we watched our favorite show, Duck Dynasty before getting ready for bed. We read until it was time for lights out around 11PM, LATER