Sunday Morning

Well Saturday was a nice day that started off with cold overcast skies and ended with a little sunshine and  milder temps. I managed to work outside for most of the day until our company arrived from the Winston-Salem area around 3:30. We took a nice hike after helping neighbor Gerald move a love seat down into his basement shortly after they arrived.

I rolled out a little after 7'ish to see ice on the truck roof and windshield, yikes it was down right cold. After my usual morning routines of a few quiet moments and the posting of this ramble I headed out to gather rocks to line the area where I planted my new black raspberry cuttings. I quickly found some really nice rocks up in the backwoods yards and hauled them down with the golf cart and then I unloaded a sack of horse droppings into the patch and covered that with old hay. Hopefully these cuttings will live and propagate and we will have our own berries next year and for years to come much like the Wine berry plants I started way back when. Nancy made a delicious wine berry cobbler for our dessert tonight with those berries picked by the cabin for the Carlson's.

We took off on a nice hike to the top of the mountain with DJ and Jenny and while the colors where some what dulled the evidence was still there of some great leaf change this past week. The leaf colors are still evident for them as they are down off the mountain but with the rain last week our peak is gone. They were up to the Stone Mountain area fly fishing for most of the morning and early afternoon. They caught only one trout as the cold snap with the barometer changing with this new front arriving seemed to have shut down their feeding frenzy. The area is a catch and release with a artificial lures only.

I made a superb guacamole when we got back from our hike and then DJ and myself ran a few clips of 9mm ammo through his new pistol. It was a sweet shooting gun. After cleaning it we settled into a game of Euchre. They had never played it before and were eager to learn and we had a good game with the guys prevailing at the end in a very close game. It was starting to cool down outside so we heated up the Tortilla soup and were soon chowing down. We shared old pictures of when they and their three beautiful girls use to visit with us in Seminole and here in the mountains. They really were a part of out life especially at church and the holidays and they would visit yearly here at the cabin. We have remained close friends through the years despite the distance to where we now live. They just sold their old place in Clemons and are now building a new home which has just started construction this past week. The oldest girl Corrine is now married and the youngest is in college and the middle girl is working with Chick Filet and may soon go corporate so they are downsizing with the near empty nest syndrome. We had a grand visit with them and hope they maybe able to visit for more than just a day next year.

After they left sometime around 8'ish we tuned into the series and the Mets were winning when I headed for the shower and then some reading before lights out at my usual 10'ish time frame which really was 9'ish or so, LATER