The morning started with my usual roll out a little after 6 to my routines of a few quiet moments and eventually the posting of this ramble. We all should pray for our country as we(the potus) made a deal with the enemy to help arm them with a nuclear weapon(s) and then released billions of sanction dollars for them to purchased all kinds of armament to facilitate the complete terror of the rest of the world. We have the most incompetent leaders ever in this administration and my grand children will suffer the most in days to come.
We decided it was jelly/jam making day so we already had juiced the wild blackberries and it was just a matter of heating the juice, adding the sugar and surgel, cooking this and then filling the jars and sealing the lids and rings and then boiling the filled jars. That kept us busy for a couple hours with the clean up and then I started a batch of wild black berry vino. I too added the sugar and yeast to the smashed berries and set the bucket upstairs to cook in the warm room for a couple weeks. Hopefully it will be as good as the last batch I made a couple years ago.
We decided to get in our hike for the day and never even worked up a sweat as the wind and dry air made it feel cooler then the 70's. We stopped and visited with Joe and Jetta for a few before heading back down the mountain to a lunch of deer salami and cheese. Yikes that is very good eatin' and many thanks to Caleb our mountain hunter and buddy. After lunch I cut lettuces, kale, beet greens, Swiss chard and spinach. I cleaned it and Nancy dried it by using the lettuce spinner and then made a couple bowls of fresh garden salad. We sat and chilled the rest of the afternoon reading until it was time for me to eat some leftovers before heading out to play pickle ball. We had to play this evening inside at Cornerstone and the play is quite different on the painted smooth concrete floor. We had some great rallies and we all left with soaked shirt around 9 PM. I was whupped as these younger guys never want to quit.
Well Nancy had a fantastic time meeting new ladies at the monthly get together for supper at the High Meadows country club. She was rubbing elbows with many ladies some who were widows many were retired from professional careers and some whose husbands still worked. She really enjoyed meeting different gals as many were her age. The food was very good she said and reasonable and she is looking forward to the next meeting in August with our friends Mechelle and Stacy who both have professional careers as well. Mechelle manages a huge multi million dollar farming enterprise and Stacy is an attorney.
Well it wasn't long after both of our 9:30 returns that Nancy shared her experiences and conversations that I was in the hot shower. That nearly 30 minute ride after the workout left me stiff and aching. I read for about 30 minutes then it was "turn the lights out the party is over" to quote a famous football player and announcer Dandy Don Merideth, Later
