Well Saturday turned to be once again another gorgeous day here in the mountains. We decided to slip into Galax, Va and the surrounding communities for some shopping as we needed to order a new washer and while there stopped at several places for flowers, veggies plants, herbs and of course groceries. The big stock up has begun. It was close to 2 before we got back to the cabin after a 10'ish start.
I started the day with a nearly 6:30 sleep in. Of course that maybe due to the fact I hadn't slept well the past two nights and that Friday was a long day with lots of physical work especially walking up and down these yards that are anything but flat. I sure missed my golf cart as it saves me many steps so the first place we went to on Saturday's trip to town was to the Hillsville area to Battery's Plus. The old feller who runs the place sold me my last battery for the cart 7 years ago. Where did that time go? Anyhow while we were near the Farmers Market we slipped in to buy some fresh veggies none of which are local except for the sugar peas and some veggie packs. I bought some yellow squash and cucumber seedlings. We then headed back to Galax and stopped at Lowes for a new washer as well as several 9 packs of annual flowers. Just down the road was Wal-Mart so we made a stop there for more flowering plants as well as dill, cilantro and parsley plants. After shopping the aisles we headed out of town.
We always stop at this little country store and next to it there is a little place that sells plants and flowers as well. I picked up a couple packs of red lettuce seedlings as well as some green pepper plants and two pots of morning glory vines. That Ivy I planted 3 years ago around the arbor was still sleeping for some reason. The old saying was it sleeps the first year, creeps the second and leaps the third well mine seems to still be sleeping forever; anyhow these morning glories plants were looking great and already had 2 foot runners which I will train to grow on the arbor. That should make for some nice photo back ground later in the summer and this vine is a perennial and comes back each year.
It was in the 80's in town but as we got back on the Blue Ridge Parkway the temps dropped back into the middle seventies. After a lite lunch we headed outside to work once again. After installing the new battery into the golf cart I headed down to the shed to retrieve all of the porch furniture. Nancy had a bucket of cleaner and washed down all of the rocking chairs, picnic tables, swing and the screens and window frames as the yellow pollen dust was everywhere from the pine trees in the area. The porch floors were covered as well so I took the blower and removed most of it as well.
I then potted up the baskets we wanted for the steps and porches with a mixture of inpatients and petunias as well potted up my pepper plants. Those green peppers are nearly a buck a piece in the store and we love them but not to often at that price. I worked up another area of the lower garden and made hills of dirt and compost for my cucumbers and yellow squash. If all of these veggies mature I can open up a veggie stand but I'm a little disappointed in the kale and beet seedlings I brought from Florida as they are still some what wilted as are the tomato seedlings. Everything else I brought up seems to have quickly acclimated to the clay soil from the sandy soil in Florida, oh well!
I grilled a couple salmon fillets for supper around 6'ish and after the cleanup we headed back outside to work in the flower beds. I weeded the back yard beds and we dug up several plants that like to grow outside the border and moved them into some bare spots as well as sowed Zinnias seeds from last years plants into beds around the upper garden. That kept us busy until nearly dark when we sat on the porch in the rocking chairs for a few minutes as darkness began to set. It was so peaceful and the smell from the fresh mowed grass was magnificent. I could live here year round if the winters weren't so dang cold and dreary. Well it was shower time as it was nearly 9 o'clock.
I dozed after my shower watching about 5 minutes of the hockey game to see who the Lightning will play next week in the Stanley Cup finals and it will be the Black Hawks I think as they were up 3-0 when I fell asleep on the couch. I soon headed for some horizontal lab and was out until nearly 6:30 this AM. Today is our first Sunday back with our Cornerstone Fellowship family and we are excited to renew old friendship and familiar faces. Take a moment and give thanks and pray for our nation as we have those who want to see our culture destroyed as well as our physical being. Pray for leadership in the highest offices that will preserve our liberty and freedoms prescribed in our constitution and pray that GOD will once more become recognized as the glue that holds our society together, LATER
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