Sunday Morning

Well Saturday found us with another touristy morning where we headed out to the beach after a somewhat sleep in until 7'ish. We were going to go down to Long Boat Key for an Amway get together at a private beach and cook out but since our friends weren't able to get a sitter for Carol's mom late in the evening we decided to spend the morning with them and then go out to eat early together. Well to make things difficult and upset the "apple cart" their sitter never came at all so they missed the beach morning with us and we decided since they couldn't go out to an early supper we all stayed home, oh well.

The weather was fantastic despite it reaching the middle 80's as the humidity wasn't too bad. The nice gentle breeze kept it comfortable and the Gulf water was refreshing to say the least. After our normal morning routines and our quiet times I loaded up the umbrellas, chairs and lotions, cold drinks and our books and we headed out around 10'ish to Redington Shores. The Gulf of Mexico was almost flat with very little wave action and as the morning heated up we took a long walk in the surf and eventually I did take a swim. It was after 1'sih before we headed home to a lite lunch of a fresh garden salad loaded with fresh garden tomatoes. They have finally started to ripen I'm picking nearly 6-8 tomatoes a day. Wow are they are ever tasty on a bed of garden fresh lettuces and kale.

Speaking of tomatoes all of these plants were volunteers that came up from my compost in the mountains and here in Florida. We ate the last of the Swiss chard for supper as the heat and nematodes are taking it toll on that veggie. I pulled up a couple plants and the root knot was just so great its a wonder they produced as much as they have. I cut another cabbage head and it must have weighted 5 pounds or more. I still have a smaller one left along with the cauliflower that we will soon harvest. I inspected the white orchid plants and noticed two more blooms that will open any day and on closer inspection found 6 more small buds on a different plant that I had separated a year or so ago which will eventually bloom as well. That gives me 10 blooms this year whereas I normally get two and they are just beautiful.


I found the Ray's Baseball on the TV at 4'ish so I tuned in and watch them finally beat the Marlins in a good game 2-0 and then later in the evening watched the final hockey game of the season as the Lightning beat the Bruins from Boston and eliminated them from any playoff hopes. The playoff's start next week. I grilled some wild caught Alaskan Sockeye Salmon and along with garlic butter pasta and Swiss chard we feasted. This salmon is the best ever and that is what I will eat from now on despite it being a little pricey at 12 bucks a pound but grouper is close 16 bucks a pound and at one time that was a trash fish when I first came to Florida, oh well I started a new non -fiction read by Hampton Sides titled BLOOD AND THUNDER and I think this will be another awesome researched and investigated story about the West and those characters who lived and died there.

Well today is the "gathering" at Element Church. We are a group of believers and followers of the Gospel that meet weekly in our respective homes for "house church" where we eat, discuss and do "life" together in a personal setting. The warehouse in Tampa is just a place where all of the house churches meet on Sunday Morning and we get to hug, handshake and love up on all of the beautiful little kiddos and hear one of the elders bring a message and sing praises to our CREATOR. If your not involved in some form of worship at least weekly there is probably a void in your life. Our once Christ influenced nation is quickly becoming a void as well and we are seeing the results of this in our culture that is quickly becoming tainted with secularism and political correctness, LATER