Well Tuesday was just another beautiful day with wonderful temps and lots of bright sunshine, finally a summer like day with some humidity in the picture but no rain. Actually a light shower would probably benefit the gardens as long as it didn't gully wash and stick around for days and weeks.
We started the day after a sleep in to around 8 AM. After our quiet times and daily morning routines Nancy fried up a couple cackleberries along with some leftover ham lunch meat and some grits to start the gastric juices flowing. I headed out to check on the gardens and yard shortly after the cleanup. The morning temps were 10 degrees warmer than the day before so the beetles were out in full force munching on my garden plants; so I harvested a bowl of them. I hoed around the lower garden plants which seem to be starting to thrive since the ground is drying out. I actually hand watered several of them with a little miracle grow mixed in the water. We may yet get enough lettuce from the once nearly dead romaine plants for a salad and the sweet taters plants have runners everywhere. The cabbage plants are actually starting to form a head so maybe they will give us enough for some cole slaw if the worms and slugs don't eat them first.
We headed out to the top of the mountain for our daily hike around 11 and stopped and brought Norm's mail onto the porch for him before heading across to the Browning's. We stopped and even sat on their back stoop for a visit before heading on back to the cabin for a lite lunch of salad. We knew we were eating with our "mountain mom" for supper at her beautiful place around 5 'ish so we ate lite. Her brother Joe and his son Randall as well as her sister Martha were in attendance and she really put on a feed. I grilled some delicious sirloin steaks that she purchased with her Delicious Ribbon Gift through Amway and then she had baked taters with all the trimins', onion rings, garden salad, garlic bread and a lemon dessert that was out of this world. Wow what a feed and the plates were licked clean. I must say the sirloins put to shame the steaks we bought from the local grass fed beef place in Grayson County a couple weeks ago. This meat was less than half what we paid for the other and was shipped to her on dry ice from the mid west; very favorable and tender.
We sat around after the clean up on the front porch until nearly 8 before heading out. The evening was so nice as we gandered off in the distance at the beautiful scenery of Bull Head mountain and the several distant ranges seen from her porch rockers. What a beautiful sight as the sun was starting to drop toward the mountains. Nancy and I took off before sunset on a different road heading home and was amazed at how this road brought us out to the parkway when going in the opposite direction from Helen's place. The road was narrow and turned to gravel as we traveled deeper into the back woods before it brought us out to the hard top at the parkway. We saw several deer and a coyote on the way home as well. It was just a beautiful evening especially after a sumptuous meal.
Well I tuned into the Rays game on the Internet and they blew a 4 run lead and were losing when I tuned them out. It wasn't long after my shower and a few minutes reading before it was lights out, LATER
