Saturday

Yikes, Friday was such an awesome day with the likes of a fall day or Indian summer. The low was in the 50's with the high in the low 70's. We headed down off the mountain last evening which is usually 10 degrees warmer and we actually were chilled at the horse sale in Mt. Airy.

 The morning started much the usual around a 7 AM wake up which is a little after day break. We are nestled down in the woods so we never saw the sun until much later in the morning. I wore a flannel shirt with long pants until mid morning. We haven't had any rain now in over a week which has been nice but the heavy morning dew keeps the grass wet until after lunchtime. I'm hand watering some of the gardens daily and of course my new lettuce and spinach seedlings.

We headed out around 11 for our daily hike to the top of the mountain. Once again the view was awesome with just a little more haze down off the top but we could still make out the buildings in downtown Winston-Salem. We stopped and visited with Sara the retired USAF Lt/Col nurse who is up from Charlotte for a few days. She says she hasn't felt this good in years since she had an afib operation on her heart about a month ago. We headed on across the top and spoke briefly with Norm and then ran into a older gent on a 4 -wheeler who lives out on Foggy Mountain Road a Mr. Fulks. Don't you just love the names of these roads. He remembered that I was a retired trooper and he said he once helped Ray Todd on the construction of our cabin.

We headed on down the mountain after leaving a package of ginger snaps on the Browning's front door as they were out serving the community with meals on wheels. We had a large lunch as we knew we would eat lite for supper and eventually we skipped supper all together as we headed down off the mountain. I finished up the leftover bass fillets on a wrap with onion, cucumber, tomato, hot pepper and basil(like a fish tacos except I used a flour tortilla) and Nancy had a ham wrap with all the fixins' as well. We had a little snack of some chocolate covered almonds from the Mast General Store just before we pulled out around 5 for the trip to Mt. Airy.

We made a goodies stop in Galax for some paper goods for the Ebenezer Children's Home where our youth group is going on Sunday after our regular service at Cornerstone. We headed on down the mountain which is about 40+ miles or so from the cabin. They were selling some beautiful horses as well as a few neglected ones. If we were here year round we would have purchased this one beautiful Paint mare or another black Quarter horse Nancy fell in love with that supposedly came from Oklahoma. Oh well!!!

It was going on 10 PM when we headed out for the drive up the dark mountain winding road. Lots of deer and other night time critters were evident along the roadside as we travelled home. The stars were so thick it looked like the Northern lights as we viewed the skies after getting back. Well Saturday is a new adventure for me and pickle ball as I introduce the game to our multi-function church facility. The open worship center is already lined for basketball and now we will see if it's functional for pickle ball as well. I will meet up with a few of our regular players and we will measure out the court and use a chalk line as well as tape to set up the court dimensions initially. Hopefully we will be able to lay permanent paint lines for future inside play, especially during the cold winter months.

We have been invited out to supper and games this evening(Saturday) as well as a football kick off lunch after church tomorrow for another get together with a couple NFL games going on at the same time. There should be some fine eatin' and the boys have to back up their last two wins in a row over the girls. We now have a reputation to uphold as Sequence winners for this year; but there goes the spare tire again, LATER