My day started out with the usual 6 'ish roll out and then my quiet time and the posting of this ramble before a semi-mountain breakfast of fried taters and eggs with a home grown jalapeno pepper in the mix. My peppers are producing and I'm thrilled as I love my hot spicy foods. I headed out to check on the gardens for damage and only found some slug damage on the Zinnias. I'm not sure why they are such a treat for them. I wanted to go by and see Kimberly at the farm and help her out by cleaning out her stables and at the same time load up on horse dropping. We had a grand time petting and loving up on her brood of mares and young filly's. At times they were the biggest pests getting in the way while scooping their stalls. We met her young high school senior neighbor Nathan who seemed to take a shine to her and is a big help with the work needed to be done around the farm and he helped me as well finish bagging and the loading the feed sacks of dropping.
We came back and while it was cloudy for most of the day had a lunch out on the back porch before I starting distributing the manure around the gardens and into my compost pile. The lettuce is ready for cutting as is a couple cucumbers nearly ready for picking. The yellow squash with all of the wet weather last week molded and now since we've had a couple days of dry weather seem to be doing better. The beans are out of control growing upwards and all of the tomato plants have fruit set in the lower garden. The specialty squash are also starting to set fruit as well as are the bell peppers. We picked a quart or so of red wine berries and they are so sweet and tasty.
We ever did get our daily hike in as we ran out of time and I was bushed walking up and down the yards. Nancy did some dead heading of her flowers and working in the beds had her muscles aching from bending and squatting which suited me just fine. I knew I would get a workout later on the pickle ball court. I grilled a couple marinated chicken breasts for supper and we finished the squash casserole from yesterdays cook out along with some brown rice. That was about it except for the late evening pickle ball play. It was close to 9 before I got back to the cabin and a hot shower to soothe those aching muscles and then a few chapters of Lee Child before turning in around 10:30, LATER I almost forgot to mention we have a family of robins nesting in the front blue spruce tree and apparently the eggs have hatched as the momma bird is now feeding my fishing worms to the babies. Nancy captured the momma with worms in her beak.
