I started the day with a 6'ish roll out and after my usual routine(s) of a few quiet moments and the posting of this ramble I ventured outside to check on the gardens. Well those dang deer were back after a couple nights reprieve and once more got into the garden but it seems they only ate and pulled the beets up in the one garden. I decided to put some poles up around that patch and string some of my yellow "do not enter" tape. I'm getting desperate to keep them out as my 1/2 runner green beans are blooming and they love to eat them as well.
Nancy made great buckwheat cakes for breakfast with fresh picked huckleberries and I slathered mine with real butter and honey and then a couple cackleberries on top, yeow that held me until suppertime with just a couple peanut butter crackers for a lite lunch. I had a raging inferno around the stump down into the ground and this of course throws off some extreme heat and with walking uphill and into the back woods for burning materials I was soaked with sweat and getting plenty of exercise. We passed on the hike after supper as I had plenty of uphill walking during the day and beside it looked as if the skies were going to open up with a heavy rain but we got just a sprinkling. The clouds were showing some unusual cloud formations and Nancy took a couple pictures.
Well for supper I grilled some of the recently replaced range fed aged beef from Grayson County and it was delicious. I chose one rib eye and one New York steak and we split them between us and the rib eye definitely had more flavor but both were very good and tender and I grilled them almost rare with a little Canadian's best seasoning and fresh rosemary on top to go along with fresh garden green beans and parsley tater's. What a feast.
Neighbor Gerald came by with his daughter Kari around 5 PM who drove him from Winston-Salem after knee surgery this morning to repair a meniscus in his left knee. He will be out for at least 4 weeks from pickle ball but he is already walking and getting around great and was riding in his mule with Kari driving. That was about it for the day except for a clogged drain in the bathroom that required me to take apart the vanity sink drain and remove a clod of hair that was 6-7 inches long. Yikes no wonder the water wouldn't go down and that is first time in about 19 years I've ever had this problem. It wasn't long after the "Spin Stops Here" with O' Reilly that I hit the hot showers and then watched Megyn until it was time to read a little before lights out at 10:30 for me, LATER
