Tuesday Morning

Well Monday was another busy day that started after my 6'ish roll out. I wish I could sleep in but this alarm clock in my brain wakes me up around 5: 45 and then I force myself to lay there for a few minutes longer and think about what I want to accomplish during the day. I let Nancy sleep in until sometime around mid morning as she has become the night owl flipping channels until the wee hours of the morning, oh well.

After my morning routines of a few quite moments, my handful of Nutrilite supplements and vitamins and a cup of hot green tea I posted this ramble about what happened the day before that might interest our grand kids when we are long gone and of course when they are much older and want to know how we spend the summers here in the mountains of North Carolina at our cabin in the woods. I sat out at the dining room table with the look of the woods surrounding me and the windows open and a slight chill in the air as the temps are down into the 60's with the call of a lonely crow off in the distance breaking the absolute stillness. Wow what a difference from the city life we lead in Florida. Occasionally we do have the fighter jets that fly at tree top height practicing their maneuvers as they roar over head. Usually they are out of sight by the time the sound reaches us as they fly at such high speeds. They practice their runs in these mountains which are somewhat similar in height to Afghanistan I've been told.

There were rain clouds all around and by 10'ish  it let loose a nice shower and then the skies cleared and the sunshine was evident for the rest of the day. It did get a little warm by late afternoon and once more the thunder heads began building with some rumbles in the distance but we never really got any major rainfall. It was during this period we sat under the porches reading for an hour or so in the shade until it was time to start some supper. After the morning rain we took off on our daily hike to the top of the mountain and stopped and chatted with Mike and Nancy who have their beautiful log cabin up for sale. They have dropped the asking price almost in half but its still on the market despite the beautiful long distant views. We headed on across the mountain and saw no one else before heading down the shaded back road which was several degrees cooler than on the exposed front road. The Browning homestead looked quiet as their two grandson have returned to the city after a week here in the mountains.

I managed to load up the golf cart and the spreader with bags of pelletized lime and did the yards. What a work out that was on the less than level yards and then replaced the fixture I had holding the weather vane on the storage shed. Seems I had to do a new redesign from the old one as the vane kept tilting. The Zinnias and lettuces I moved up to larger containers are doing well and I hope to get them in the ground in a few days.  

We had a lite lunch after burritos for breakfast. I wanted to use up a couple slices of bread which I've basically stayed away from in maintaining the spare tire so I had one of my favorite peanut butter with sliced onion sandwiches. Nancy did the salad as she turned up her nose at trying one of my favorite combo's. Speaking of salad,  I'm now harvesting a little more lettuce, kale and beet greens to add to the store bought produce. Caleb our mountain buddy gave me a bag of frozen in water creek caught trout so I thawed them out and filleted them for our supper along with taters' loaded with fresh parsley from the garden, yeow did that combo along with the fresh salad make for a healthy and tasty supper. After the clean up we headed outside until nearly 9 o'clock which was still light enough to see to piddle around in the garden and flower beds.

Well it was hot shower time a little later and time to pick up the true story book about the 4 women who were doing their best to help their side in the Civil War. Very interesting. The Rays were losing big at home to the Jays, LATER