Tuesday Morning

Well Monday started out with temps close to 70 with bright sunshine and the humidity was back in the picture. It stayed that way for most of the day except about 4'ish the clouds moved in and at one time I saw a few sprinkles of rain but that didn't last. I'm really starting to dream of the cool mornings in the mountains and the grass greening up. We are looking at another 7 weeks or so before I hope we make that dream come true.

I rolled out at my usual 6'ish time and after my routines and a few quiet moment to give thanks, reflect on this past Easter Sunday and lift up a few folks who need some special thoughts concerning their situations I ate a lite breakfast before heading out on my bike to the rec. Our large group of pickle ballers have some what dwindled down to just 2 courts today with a couple waiting to get on. Seems we have lost several who have traveled back to their summer homes in Canada and the Northeast. We still had enough players to all leave the gym with wet shirts by 10 o'clock.

I headed home to hand water the gardens as the heat has really started to dry things out. We could use some rain. I picked another dozen or small tomato's as well as a couple tennis ball size ones. I then picked a gallon or more of half runner beans and we had those for supper at GG's later in the evening. The new beets and kale seedlings are showing some great color and it maybe too early to start some tomato's seeds but I want to see if they will make. That new garden magic powder composed of 30 some trace and minor elements is fantastic and is just what my soil needs. I noticed the last several times I've buried my kitchen compost the earthworms are back in abundance. Of course they make the best plant food ever with their casings(manure).

We weren't having anyone for lunch today but ourselves as we were all meeting at GG's for a supper with Erica and her family from Miami. Erica who is two years older than Bobby and now has 8 kiddos, 5 boys and 3 girls yikes I don't know how they do it and home school too. The kids are all well behaved, very musically talented and there is not a picky eater in the gang. They can eat like an adult. We had a great visit with them and Ava and Sam quickly made friends with their cousins as well. We had chicken Kiev, rice, green beans, broccoli, salad and Nancy made 2 pumpkin pies as well as chocolate cookies. I passed on all the sweet stuff but everything was delicious. We visited and enjoyed the different personalities of each of the kids before heading out around 9.

I tuned into the final basketball game which was even at half time. After a hot shower I watched the first few minutes when Wisconsin came out strong and built nearly a 10 point lead and Duke was missing everything. So it was nearly 11 and I decided to read about the final score this morning and I was shocked that Duke came back and won by 5 points. That must have been an exciting last few minutes of the game. I almost forgot to mention the opening day for the Rays against the Orioles was played during the afternoon at Tropicana Field and the season got off to a bad start with our pitching and hitting as we lost 6-2 to the birds, LATER