Well as always as we tend to grow "long in the tooth" we ask ourselves "where did this time or year go"? Yikes seems like yesterday we were welcoming in a new year and here we go again doing the same again tonight, oh well. I hope this new year brings some joy to those who have said good-bye forever to family, friends and loved ones. I still feel hollow at times for those whom we have know and who left this life, our friendship and closeness to a better place in Heaven. In reality that is the goal of us all at the end of our time here on earth.
Well Tuesday started out much the usual with a roll out around 6 or a little before. The day turned out to be a wet and soggy day with much needed rain. Despite all of my daily watering a steady light rain was much needed by the garden and it did that most of the day and evening. The temps finally dropped a few degrees so we cut the a/c off again and hopefully stay off until around March or April, wishful thinking. I headed out to the rec on my bike after a few quiet moments and a lite breakfast of oatmeal, cinnamon and honey in a light drizzle. We had 2 courts in action and once again I could wring the sweat out of my shirt. Wow what a work out for 2 hours with non stop action. Afterwards I made a quick stop at the library for a couple new reads before heading on home in a light rain.
There was no need to do anything outside so I read for an hour until Nancy got back from her workout on the treadmill at the rec. She was heading in as I was heading out for home. When she got back we cleaned up and headed out to Sam's Club for a gas up at 2.15 a gallon then for some goodies for tonight's get together at the Botbyl's along with Patrick and Kathryn. We then made a Publix and Aldi stops on the way home and once more filled up the larder(cabinets and fridge). Amy came around 1, so we could watch Eliza Faye while she took Ava and Sam for dental appointments. The flossing paid off as neither of them had any cavities for a change, that was fantastic news. Little Eliza Faye charmed us for an hour until she gave into a nap, wow does she ever fight sleep. Finally she took a nap on Nancy lap and we managed to get her in a bed without waking up. That was a first because the minute you lay her down it's like she has a button somewhere that awakens her. She still hasn't completely got use to walking alone but will sometime in the next few weeks be walking and running all before her first birthday in January.
I read the rest of the afternoon and then after Amy picked up Eliza we settled into speaking with our "mountain mom, Helen". Her son Rick and a friend had been with her the past week and they had a wonderful time together eating, visiting family and old familiar places in the Winston-Salem area where he grew up. He lives just a few minutes near us here in Florida. It was great to hear of the fun time she had with them and how the weather wasn't to bad. A year or so ago he nearly got snowed in when a really heavy snow fell over the Christmas holidays while he was there.
I sliced the leftover rib roast into small size bites and with sauteed green pepper and onions we made fajitas, replete with sour cream and hot sauce. I had just enough Swiss chard(not cooked) from last nights supper that we cooked up for a very delicious and healthy meal, yikes was that ever tasty. Nancy will use the rib roast bones which are frozen for some good beef barley vegetable soup on what we hope will be a cool day sometime in the near future. At least cool enough to turn the a/c off. After the cleanup we headed out to watch a little of Fox News and saw where the aircraft that disappeared from the skies was found with several bodies floating in the ocean. That area of the world has had it's share of unusual occurrence with planes and I wonder if there is some illegal or unethical activity that is taking place there.
I found a college football between Georgia and Louisville on the tube and it was rather interesting at first but the Bulldogs prevailed at the end. It was close to 11 when I said good-night and lights out. Well I hope all of you who read these daily posting enjoy them. I live such a mundane life to most but I'm hopeful that our way of life will prevail at best. The love of my family,country and GOD was once the norm for many who call America home but somehow we have been influenced by a few non conformists to change all of what use to be traditional values and mores. What use to be bad is now good, what use to be respected is disrespected and I could go on and on about the many changes that have so recently occurred. I must say our POTUS has made true his pledge to drastically change America and he is successful in making us weak within. There is success in dividing a country instead of uniting us against those who want to destroy our way of life. I read a little about his fathers hatred for American and what he felt was colonialism of the nations of Africa. I'm amazed others are unaware the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Hopefully we will wake up with this next bunch of legislators and start to undo some of the strife that has been started by this administration. Although I will hold my opinion for now as I'm disgusted with career politicians who are self serving, LATER
