I started the day off with a 7'ish roll out and the temps were in the upper 60's. There was a heavy dew as I could hear the dew dripping down from the bump out onto the tin roof. There was such quietness in the area and the few rabbits that have moved into our yards where everywhere when I pulled the blinds up. They sure like to eat the clover that has moved into my grass and so far have left the veggie gardens alone. After my usual cup of hot green tea used to wash down a handful of vitamins and supplements I spent a few quiet moments then posted this ramble before heading out to wonder around the gardens and yards. After a bowl of oatmeal with cinnamon, honey, wine berries, a peach and some blueberries I headed out to unload the manure from the truck. I loaded up the garlic patch with 4 bags of the good stuff then worked it into the ground. I'll let that set for a couple weeks then plant by garlic bulbs sometime around the middle or last of August so they can get a good start on next years crop.
I composted the rest of the manure and hope to get another load sometime later this summer for the gardens. I spread some old hay onto my recently sowed grass seeds in the backwoods yards where I had burned out the stumps. Hopefully with keeping the hay damp the seeds will sprout and get a good start for the fall growing season. Nancy was ready for the morning hike by now so we took off to the top. We saw our old friends John and Shirley Cottle on top and stopped and visited with them for nearly an hour. It was great to see them again as they have been busy with her mother and their moving into a new house. They had friends, grand daughters and family in for a visit from California and Virginia the past several weeks. We sure miss talking and sharing life experiences with them.
We headed on back down and decided to have our supper for lunch so I fired up the grill and while that got hot I made a delicious guacamole. Wow was that every tasty and we demolished that while the marinated chicken breasts cooked. We put them over a bed of fresh salad and called that our big meal of the day. Afterwards I did some piddling around until it got rather hot before the clouds moved in so I sat on the back porch and read for a couple hours. Sandra Brown is an awesome writer with great story lines and this local library has many of her books. Neighbor George Redmond came by for a visit and blessed us with a couple yellow tomato's. There is something about yellow maters' that aren't maters' to us but we were thankful anyhow. They do have less acid than the red ones and look good in a pasta salad but just not the same as red ones, oh well. I picked beet greens, spinach and kale for the fresh salad Nancy put together for today's lunch and tomorrows supper at the Tracy's cabin.
Well we read until it was time to eat a mater' sandwich with some sweet tater chips for our lite supper. I was playing pickle ball at 7 so I wanted to eat lite and it's a good thing as we had some great play on the court. There were 4 of us and we played non-stop for over 2 hours with great rallies and the despite the temps in the lower 60's we were soaked with sweat. What a great workout and these younger guys never seem to get tired or at least they don't want to admit it to me as I'm their senior by 20 years or more, oh well it was a hot shower for me and then some horizontal lab short thereafter with a book until 11'ish.
Nancy was out with her camera catching some great photos of the beautiful insects that love her flowers, LATER The flower photo is of the "magic lilly."
