The morning started out with me rolling out around 6'ish to start the day. After my handful of vitamins and supplements washed down with a cup of hot green tea I spent a few moments lifting up those I know who need some special consideration for their infirmities and needs as well as for our nation as we have let the secular progressives change our culture from one nation under GOD and then the posting of this daily ramble so my grand kids will know who and what their grandparents was like.
I headed out to walk around the yards and garden to check for deer damage and while they have been busy munching on Nancy's flowers the past two nights I think they by passed last night. Hopefully their taste for flowers have vanished. The recently transplanted lettuces and spinach seem to be taking hold. The cloudy cooler days have helped with getting them established as well as the rain that was needed. The tomato's are blooming and the beans are running, so I added another section of chicken wire for them to climb. That gives them about 7 feet or so to climb which will make it much easier to harvest. I transplanted another 6 hot pepper seedling that neighbor Gerald was thinning out of his pepper pots so if all of these make I can set up a veggie stand.
We took our late morning hike to the top of the mountain despite the threat of rain which never made. We are now making the climb to the back road without stopping which is a good sign we are finally getting into shape. The long pull to the top usually finds me not stopping, but Nancy makes one stop so in order to keep her safe from a bear attack I take a breather with her about half way up. The walk across was uneventful and we stopped an spoke with Dean who is looking after Norm's place while he is still in the hospital. His condition is not improving and maybe going down hill as there is little the doctors can do with his heart except make him as comfortable as possible.
We stopped and spoke with Joe and Jetta before heading back down to the cabin. Once more rain was evident but we only got a lite sun shower. We had clothes on the line and it wasn't enough to bring them in. After a lite lunch of salad I headed back out to piddle around in the woods. I had a couple trees that had partially blown down so I worked them up then cut up some that were down and piled them on my ever growing brush pile. On a cold day in October I will burn it and then spread the ashes on my back woods yard to help with controlling moss. I learned the old timers did that when they had no lime of course I can buy bagged lime and I do but what a way to use everything.
Well we ate some leftovers from last nights dinner with Joe and Helen and it was just as tasty. After the clean up we decided to take a golf cart ride out to the mailbox and I cut low hanging limbs on the way in and out. We then took off to visit Ray and Audean on the other side of the mountain but they were gone off to watch Carson play basketball in Mt. Airy. Their son David was there and we visited a moment with him before heading back up the mountain.
It was nearly 8 before headed in to watch the O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News channel and once more the news is all about the incompetence and scandal ridden administration that is in D.C. Now we are about to let Iraq fall to a bunch of terrorists because of the golf playing and fund raising president who should never have been elected in the first place due to his lack of leadership. Oh well!!! LATER We sat on the deck for an hour or so during the afternoon sun and read. Nancy finished our son's first book THE GREAT DARKNING in the trilogy THE EPIC OF HAVEN
