Brrr this morning as the temps dropped down into the 40's, yikes this is the 30th of July, Oh well it made for great snuggling under an extra blanket.
Tuesday was another great day with temps starting out in the low 60's and stayed that way for most of the day. I doubt if it reached the high 70's at all during the afternoon. I started the morning with a 7'ish roll out to blue skies and the only sound was the dew dripping from the dormer onto the tin roof. The wind we've had the past couple days has abated and the quietness was calming. After a few minutes of quiet time with my maker and my usual routine(s) of posting this ramble I indulged in a bowl of oatmeal with cinnamon, honey and a few blueberries to start the gastric juices flowing for the day.
I headed out to check on the gardens and saw a few deer tracks in the new grass coming up on the stump burnouts. I've watering the grass there daily and the ground was soft enough to let me know they are still around. I noticed some lettuce was missing from the herb garden but nothing else except maybe some new cone flowers that are starting to head once again. Normally deer don't eat cone flowers but they have taken exception to that this year. The wind earlier this week was brutal to my beans, tomato's and peppers as they were tall and the wind just bent them over. It was back to me hand watering daily once again as we are very dry.
I had some small jobs I wanted to do and the first one was an area by the driveway that had a large rock surface under ground. Years ago I tried to remove the rock and it wouldn't budge so I brought out the digging tools and finally removed the 100 pound rock or so and rolled it down the hill and then headed out to the back woods where I have a dirt hole to fill in the rock hole. That was easier than I anticipated and didn't take all morning so I headed up to the last stump and finally finished digging completely under it so when the burning day comes it should go quickly. All I need now is a good soaking rain to lessen the fire danger in the woods which is nearby.
We decided to get our hike out of the way so up the mountain we went. We learned overnight Barry the feller I mentioned in yesterday's ramble had passed away last evening due to pneumonia and other various ailments. The Clines, Ann and Sandy also mentioned they had a good prospective buyer for their cabin as well. So it looks as if this year will bring lots of changes to the top of Rich Hill Mountain. We stopped and chatted with Joe and petted Zeke on our journey. Joe blessed us with a mess of green beans which were just perfect for the vegetable soup Nancy was preparing for supper and our "mountain mom" Helens brother Joe also blessed us with some home grown tomato's and a couple sweet onions. It was a good day for us from fellers by the name of Joe.
Helen and Joe came for a supper of beef vegetable soup, corn bread and salad and home made chocolate cookies for dessert. After they left and the clean up Grant and Shirley from down the road along with two of their grandkids came by for a visit. Grant and I took a hike up the back trail and then down by Ray's old place which helped to digest the delicious supper. The temps were falling and they were on their golf cart so about 8 they headed out for their place down by the creek. We settled in to the Fox News channel with O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly before hitting the hot showers. I managed to find the box scores for the Ray's and they beat the Brewers 5-1 and now have the best record in baseball after the All Star break. It wasn't long until it was time for some horizontal lab with Sandra Brown's book SMOKE SCREEN and then lights out for me around 10:30, LATER
