Well Saturday was just a typical winter day in Florida with temps that were somewhere into the low 70's with bright sunshine and a slight breeze. The humidity stayed away and that made for "working outside" just a pleasure and that's what I did until 3 PM. The early morning had a chill but the birds were singing and it reminded of a spring day in the mountains.
We tried to sleep in and I did until 6:30 but I'm so use to rolling out at 6 or a little before it's very difficult to lay in bed. Nancy was out cold and all snuggled up in the flannel sheets. I did my usual morning routines and then microwaved a couple soft boiled eggs and heated up the leftover pork chop for breakfast. That held me until we met up with the Botbyl's and Tracy's at the Salt Rock Grill around 4 PM for an early supper.
I could tell it was going to be a beautiful day outside for laundry on the clothesline so I put a load in the machine and later hung them after I returned from dropping off GG's old TV at Home Depot. Seems every so often the county sets up a disposal site for hazardous materials, used or broken electronics, TVs, etc and wow was this a big production as several vehicles were line with their drop offs. It was a little after 9 when I decide to pull out the lawn mower and starting mowing up the oak leaves that have really been falling the past couple days. Many of the oaks in the 'hood have already started with the fuzzes that signals the start of new leaf development.
I mowed up several large trash can of the leaves and then piled them up so I could reduce them down to about one can by mowing over them. This allows for fast composting plus reduces the volume by 2/3 at least and makes for great mulch of my garden plants. The worms do the rest by running the mulch through their gastrointestinal system and then giving me great organic fertilizer for my garden. It has taken years to build up this good soil that produces great veggies and its mainly because of this process. I lost a lot of worms last year as the yard man sprayed my garden while we were gone for the summer with a weed killer that decimated most of my worms. I have a few coming back but it will probably be a couple years, before they sprayed I had so many worms I was giving them away for other gardeners plus I brought lots of them to the mountain gardens.
I worked outside until it was time for a hot shower and then headed out to the beach town for supper. The boats were everywhere on the intracoastal waterway with lots of folks in shorts and bathing suits. The Salt Rock filled up fast with boaters tying up to their docks and eating outside as well as the inside made for a beautiful view of the waterway. The place was jumping almost from the start and luckily we had reservations. The food was very good and everyone had different entrees. I decided to have the mussels and pasta that started with a bowl of grouper chowder, sourdough(broke the diet for a day) bread with herbs and oil, Caesar salad and finished with apple cobbler and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top(I really broke the diet), although it was a very small dessert. Delicious and I must say this place is one of the top restaurant's in the Bay Area even better than Bone Fish as attested by the number of it's patron's.
We came back and satisfied our desire to play 6 handed Eucher. Initially the guys were up 6-0 in a 10 point game but the gals rallied and won after euchering us twice to win by one. We took the second game by 8 points but decided to skip the rubber game as we wanted to talk about our upcoming trip out west this next fall. We decide upon the Tracy's advice to purchase the air fare now while it's still relatively inexpensive both Nancy and I fly on Southwest round trip from Tampa to Reno, Nevada for less than nine hundred bucks which includes 2 bags each. Wow that is a great price for flying nearly across the country and we will be staying relatively free at Kathryn's brothers rental house in Lake Tahoe. We will leave Tampa on the 11th of Sept and return on the 24th if all goes as planned. We will be in Florida for a few days afterwards for grand kids birthday before heading back to the cabin.
Well I awakened in the middle of the night with a discomfort in one of my molars with the old amalgam filings so it looking like I will be back at the dentist for another crown on Monday, hopefully that is all it will take and not for a root canal. The Air Force dentist put these in my mouth in 1966 and I still have a couple in the lower molars. My dentist here in Florida was an USAF dentist and was stationed at Travis in the same facility I was worked but a couple years after I left the service; small world. I'm surprised these filings have lasted as long as they have, oh well.
It's off to worship with our Element Family this beautiful morning with the fore cast for even warmer temps than yesterday. My garden loves these cool nights and warm days. After the service we will head over to GG's and put together her new corner TV stand we ordered on-line last week as we couldn't find one she wanted locally at a reasonable price, oh well, LATER
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