Tuesday

Well its sure quiet around here after the last of our guests left for warm sunny Florida. Dan and Carol pulled out around 8:30 after Nancy fixed  a nice breakfast of ham, egg and toast to send them on their way. The temps had moderated to nearly 50* after a couple of cold mornings.

We did our quiet times then put some towels in the laundry and then headed out for our daily hike to the top of the mountain. It had warmed up close to 60 by the time we headed back down. The clouds moved in and we had a few sprinkles so it was time to take the clothes off the line and pop them in the dryer. The light rain stayed around for most of the afternoon so I decided to read. I finished KILLING JESUS by Bill O'Reilly and what a great read from the historical perspective. All of his books should be a mandatory read for history classes.

We heated up some leftover tortilla soup for supper and it was even more tasty than when it was prepared a couple days ago, yeow is that ever a good meal. I finished the last piece of pumpkin cheese cake so now all of the desserts are gone. We will take a break from the rich food eatin' for a couple days as we must work on our spare tires. We ate rather healthy except for when eating out with fried taters chips and French fries which we seldom eat at home. We did have smashed taters a couple times which are great leftover in tater cakes, oh well!

After the clean up I headed out to hike up the back trail and then down the back road for a small workout. I was looking for any deer that might be moving just before dark and I saw none but did see fresh tracks in my herb garden overnight. They once again mowed down my parsley which survived the freeze. Most of the potted flower are history for this year as well as the Zinnias which made it through several nights of close to freezing temps but the big freeze in the teens did them in. I clipped the heads off to dry out for next years planting as well as pulled up the peppers. I did manage a handful of red peppers to dry. The collards seem to love the freezing temps and look healthy and vibrant as well as does the red leaf lettuce, spinach, oregano, thyme, beets and arugula.

I tuned into Fox news and see where our leaders in the gov't have been lying to us about this health care fiasco as well as other scandals all along. When are we going to wake up America? Well its depressing to realize that our leaders are down right liars. Oh well!!! I managed to watch the Red Sox beat the Cardinals and now have the chance to win the series in Boston on Wednesday, LATER