Tuesday Morning in the mountains

Well despite very little or no sleep on Saturday and then again on Sunday night I felt raring to go on Monday. I was up at 6 AM  and finally by 10 PM on Monday night I was ready for some horizontal lab. It takes me a couple days or nights to get acclimated to the new surroundings especially the bed for me to get a good nights sleep. All of the years I lived out of a B-4 bag(USAF luggage) while flying into a different base each day you would think I would have no problem settling down for the night; but I'm like a kid going fishing the next day, filled with adrenalin and looking forward to the excitement, oh well.

We got a message from some old friends from our old church in Seminole who were up here in the Mt.Airy area on vacation and wondered how far our place was from where they were staying. Well it's just about an hour up the mountain at the last minute due to a change of plans they decided to visit us after lunch. We were mostly settled in with some cleaning and touching up to do in the cabin when they arrived. The sun was shining with bright blue skies and it actually had warmed up to the middle 60's. We finally got the cabin warm from the portable heater without lighting the propane heater.

We showed them our place and then decided to show them the sights from the top of our mountain. It's a rather good pull up the back trails to the top but the views are awesome. We made several rest stops but despite some old injuries and a hip replacements they made the hike. We showed them several places that were for sale and they really love the area along the Blue Ridge. They had been up to the beginning of the Skyline Drive and were driving south on their way back to Florida. We managed most of the walk across the top of the mountain when the skies clouded up and a light rain started. We got back just as the skies opened up and after awhile they decided to travel on south to the Boone/Blowing Rock area. Shirley has been our pianist at our old church for years and at one time attended my Sunday School class. She and husband John see our Amy and her family every Sunday at church and John and I are the same age with lots in common. He is a carpenter by trade and loves to work with wood. He was impressed with my furniture making from sod pallets albeit "colonial style" or "mountain man style" with nothing being square or precise but functional.

Well since the rain started we decided to stay in after they headed out around 4'ish and read and then watch a little playoff baseball where the Nationals came back from being on the brink of elimination to the Giants. We decided to finish off the rotisserie chicken we picked up on our way Sunday and Nancy made a delicious yellow rice and chicken

casserole for supper. We caught up on some messages from FB and e-mail and then I settled into the FOX News to see what this inept administration is doing to destroy our way of life in this country. Not only are they not keeping us safe but have actually allowed those who want to cripple us into the country and now have invited a terrible disease to go unchecked. I believe nothing this bunch of crooks and liars in D.C. tell us and the sooner they are replaced with honorable men and women the better. GOD help us after this bunch is voted out, LATER