The morning started with my internal alarm back on schedule with a 6 ish wake up. I wish I could retrain that darn thing to Nancy's schedule which is 7-8ish wake up. I remember a year or so ago it was 8-9 before we rolled out to start the day but not now. I really like the quietness of the early morning with the day breaking and the crisp clean smells of the morning flowers, mowed grass and just the earth it's self. Oh well, such is some of the wonderful things that accompany this living style at the cabin in the mountains.
After my morning routines and a few quiet moments with my Creator I headed out to check on the gardens for now deer damage as I saw their hoof prints in the soft earth out in the back woods yards where I recently transplanted some berry shoots from Joe's berry patch. It seems the deer love the new growth on those shoots and now for the second time have eaten them off. Luckily not all the way to ground. I think the majority of them will survive and hopefully next year produce some berries. I did learn from our neighbor Jetta on top of the mountain, that you must prune berry bushes in order for them to produce and the one she planted last year has yielded and extraordinary harvest of black raspberries this summer. So maybe the deer's pruning is a blessing but it seems it is the wrong time of the year, Oh well.
I picked my first cucumber from the garden for the salad that accompanied our supper of grilled pork chops(bone-in) fried taters and onions, pinto beans and fresh wine berries over vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and whipped cream on top, Yeow was that ever delicious and we licked the platter clean which means there was no leftovers it was that good. I have several small yellow squash on the vine and lots of the teardrop size tomatoes which are slow to ripe. Finally I see some blooms on the 1/2 runner beans which would be tree top in height if I had them near a tree. One time I'm going to plant a couple seeds near a tree and see if they would grow to the top of it; something like the Jack in the Beanstalk fable. I did sow some more beet seeds and soaked some okra seeds in water overnight to put in the ground tomorrow.
We took a golf cart ride to the top of the mountain after supper as we wanted a picture of Jetta's beautiful hand made quilt. It took her nearly 7 months to complete this master piece and hopefully she will win later this month in the Sparta quilting contest. We visited for a few minutes then headed on across the top and saw several families up for the week end. We stopped at our neighbor Gerald's place where he and his new bride Karyl were visiting with her daughter Tiffany and her 2 children Rachel and Sammy. We took Rachel and Tiffany on a little golf cart ride to show them the beauty of all of Nancy's flowers and Rachel loved the ride. She is such a cutie pie. We learned that Tiffany went to school at Radford College about the same time our Kelly did who just had her second child, a little girl named after her grandmother( JoAnn) and the lady who raised me along with my uncle(Paw Paw). I think Tiffany's father in law may have taught in a private Christian school where Kelly taught for a year as well. What a small world!!
We headed in to watch some news for a change and found not much to our liking especially with our elected officials. I think it's time for a complete overhaul in all of the branches in government and get people who put the country first and not special interest groups who seem to be fragmenting our culture. It seems what was bad is now good and held in high esteem. I'm sick to my stomach that people would campaign for office on the killing of the unborn and innocent, same sex marriages and the denigrating of our once proud heritage of the Judea -Christian principles that our founding fathers instilled into the laws of the land that made us an example for the world. We need to wake up America before GOD brings an awful judgement to our land in the form of Iran getting nuclear bombs, the crash of our economy and the lack of leadership which leads us vulnerable for any rogue country to send their illegals to kill us on the streets. I see signs of that occurring right now and we have no leaders to stand up for US(USA) and be bold in thwarting those efforts. Well I said my piece and will do my part to continue to make this a haven for freedom and liberty and honoring our Creator but I'm losing faith in those who voted to send to Washington these incompetents who portend to lead us, LATER
