Well Thursday was a day that started out much the usual with a before 6 roll out in hot, humid Florida. This time next week I hope to be updating this ramble while looking out of the cabin and into the woods of North Carolina with morning temps down somewhere in the 50's. Yeow, am I ever looking forward to some cooler temps. After my routines of a few quiet moments, a lite breakfast and the posting of these thoughts I headed out on my bike to the rec for some 2 hours of continuous action on the pickle ball courts. We had a good mixture of A and B players today and everyone left with a wet shirt. I stopped off at the library for a new read that requires mentioning and I will do so later in this ramble.
I hand watered the new seedlings some of which are nearly a foot tall and the jalapeno peppers are setting fruit. I believe all will make it for another week before I can get them transplanted into the cabin garden. Nancy was at the rec doing her workout on the treadmill so I started this new read titled THE WILD TRUTH. A few years ago there was a book title INTO THE WILD where a young man abandoned all contact with his family and lived in the Alaskan wild and eventually died due to starvation. It was unknown why this college educated young man choose this path; well his sister has written this book after 2 decades to tell the real story why her brother Chris did what he did. I've only scratched the surface with about 1/4 of the book completed but it's a real life story of a dysfunctional family and you can draw your own conclusions toward his decisions and what it cost him and his sister who now tells all.
Amy, GG and the kiddos came for a lunch of bacon, egg, sliced tomato and onion sandwiches. We used the last of the tomatoes from the garden and were they ever tasty. All of my tomato plants this year were volunteers from my compost pile and they were the best crop in several years. I think one of the reasons was due to the extra trace minerals from the Organic Garden Shop that comes from out west that is processed from a dried up sea bed. It sure made a visible difference in all of my garden plants as well as an abundant harvest.
We were going to Amy's for a supper of stuffed green peppers so we picked up GG and headed over around 6 o'clock. The supper was delicious and the kiddos were so cute and wound up to have us visiting. We settled in to the Ray's game on T.V. and finished it later upon getting back to the house. The Ray's beat the Oakland A's and now tonight (Friday) the fourth game of the Lightning game versus the Rangers will be played in Tampa as well, Go Bolts!!! That was about it for the day except we got some good results from GG's last blood tests which indicated her blood levels are improving as that was a holding point on our departure date. She is improving and is showing no signs of the prior conditions she had when the loss of blood triggered her heart issues. I will now put lots of our services on vacation and open up our services in the mountain. There is lots to do before packing and we seem to have it down to a system, LATER
