Well Friday was a rather nice day with a little sunshine at times and no real rain until late afternoon, evening and then all night long. I mean it was a gully washer or as some old timers call it a frog swallower. Dang gum we need to send some of this rain to the west (left) coast as they are in a terrible drought especially in northern California where I use to live many moons ago. The lakes where I use to water ski are practically no more, especially around the Sacramento area.
We started Friday with a sleep in once more to a little after 7. We did see some blue skies to start the day and I thought most of the rain had moved off to the north of us. After our usually morning routines, a few quit moments and the posting of this ramble we scrambles a few cackleberries along with some fresh mushrooms and had us a burrito. I of course shopped up a fresh garden Serrano pepper and a tomato on mine. Wow was that ever a delicious way to start the gastric juices flowing. I headed out after eating and fired up the riding mower for a couple hours of mowing. That kept me busy until lunch time when we finished up the last of the smoked chicken on a bed of garden lettuce.
After lunch I hauled out the golf cart and loaded it with bags of pelletized lime and the spreader and gave the yards a good coat of lime as all of this rain has once more been great for the growth of moss and I'm starting to see it everywhere in all of the yards. Last year I raked by hand truck loads of the stuff from the all of the yards. Lime is the cheapest way to help control it. No sooner did I finished spreading the lime did we get a lite rain shower which helped to wash it but later in the day around 5:30 the ski opened up and we were deluged with a heavy monsoon type rain. There were cars flooded out on the street in Sparta with a river running down main street, yikes!!!
We were invited out to a lasagna supper at Gerald and Kay's with the Dalton family and Karin and Frank. Nancy had made a chocolate moose cheesecake with real whipped cream, chocolate syrup and cherry on top. Karin brought a delicious layered salad. Kay's lasagna was awesome as well. Wow did we ever put on the feed bag. The girls took off to a pre-yard sale in Independence, Va. to look for bargains from a friend who was selling out while Gerald and I stayed at home and watched baseball on the tube. The guys were spared a whupping in Sequence because no one thought to bring the board. We will have to have another game before we head back for the winter to Florida for bragging rights. We(guys) usually win the final(only) game of the year and I never let the gals forget it. We do have some great ribbing and laughter from this crazy game when the gals and guys match up against one another.
I was working down under the back porch potting up some volunteer seedlings from my compost pile when I uncovered a nest of yellow jackets. Lucky for me I saw them before they attacked and I was able to wipe out the nest and all of these vicious little stingers. I must have killed a total of a hundred of them and smashed their young in the nest as well. I haven't been stung this year but have many stings in years past from these brutal little bee's. I fear them more than any other bee as they attack without warning and are continuous stingers as well. A honey bee will die after stinging but not these bees. My neighbor ran his lawn mower in a nest in the ground a few years ago and I could here him screaming through the woods from their incessant stinging and it took him several days to remove his mower from the nest in the ground.
We left the Sparta area around 9:30 and it was so foggy at times we couldn't see the edge of the road especially on our road as it is all gravel. It was extreme driving at its best and we were lucky there were no deer in the roadway. We creeped all the way home. After a hot shower I watched the Kelly Report on Fox News and they had the Ward Churchill (Colorado professor) interview on and it's a must see and listen to this professor's rhetoric about how America is at the center of what's wrong in the world. This is the type of people who are filling our kids heads full of crap in our institutions of higher learning. No wonder so many are leaving our land and joining the Islamic terrorists in Iraq and Syria. I think we always should have good debate on any issue but to teach that America is at the root of all evil is just down right radical and pure unethical. Maybe he should have served in the military to fight for his nation and not hide behind his mothers skirts. I'm a firm believer Israel has the right idea that every able bodied person man and woman alike serve their nation in the military and see what really the rest of the world will do to you if your not firm in your convictions for the homeland, LATER
