Tuesday

Monday was another fall day with temps staying in the upper 60's  to low 70's for most of the day. Whenever the clouds covered the sun it was chilly with the breeze. It did cloud up and sprinkle a little from time  to time but not enough to settle the dust. We just worked around the cabin. Nancy hung 2 loads of laundry and I worked in the garden and yards.

We slept in until after 7 as I have developed a runny nose and an occasional cough. I blame it on the sudden change in temps and the Goldenrod that is blooming everywhere. After our quiet times and hot drinks we settled for oatmeal with fruit for breakfast. I loaded up with my anti-oxidant's and supplements before heading out to check on the gardens for deer damage. We saw lots of signs in the backwoods and even saw 2 last evening but so far the deer fence has worked.

I loaded up the trash cans on the golf cart and headed to the backwoods where I gathered several loads of dried leaves and spread them out down near the garden where I could mulch them with the riding mower. I turned 6 large loads of leaves into 1 large can and then spread that on the garden. Eventually I will use Norm's rotor tiller and turn them under to add humus to the soil. The earthworms will compost the humus and that will in turn help keep the soil from being compacted and add nutrients as well for next years garden plants. I figured if leaves can grow huge trees in the forests they surely could help growing plants.

I worked on that project until it was time to head out for our daily hike to the top of the mountain. We stopped and took Norms mail up to him(our good deed for the day)and left it on the porch then headed on down to the Browning's where we saw their son was visiting from Ohio. We small talked until we started on food and my tummy was growling; so we headed back to the cabin. It was going on 1 and I was ready for the last of the vegetable soup and a couple pieces of fried chicken Nancy purchased  a couple days ago.

I headed back out to the garden and spread a couple more trash cans of leaves on the lower garden and then decided to spread some dirt on the rough places in the back woods yards. I dug 2 loads of golf cart dirt and spread it as well as sowed some grass seed and then covered that with some old hay to help hold the seeds in case it should gully wash with rain. That took me up to about 4:30 and then we headed out to the mailbox on the golf cart.

The tummy was growling for sustenance so Nancy fried up 2 nice egg plants that someone blessed us with from church and we covered them with thyme, basil and hot pepper(cayenne from the garden) for me. That is an awesome dish and we made that our main meal except for a fresh salad. The key is to peel them and slice it thin and coat them with egg and cracker meal or crushed corn flakes and quickly fry in olive oil and then garnish with whatever; very tasty. These where the purple ones that were just perfect in size. After the clean up I headed out and hand watered until dark. We noticed 2 large deer in the backwoods yard by the large rhododendron.

It was nearly pitch black by 8 so I tuned into the Ray's game which surprisingly was televised and the Rays won big over the Rangers. There is just a flicker of hope for them to be in the post season playoffs. After the game a hot shower and then it was to read a few minutes before lights out for me, LATER