Well Thursday was a busy day that started with a 6 ish roll out for me. After my usual routines, few quiet moments and a lite breakfast I headed outside to check on the gardens for any deer and slug damage. So far the deer have only eaten some of our shrubs, berry bushes and a few of our Fall daisies that are out in the backwoods gardens. Worms are starting to invade the kale plants so I squashed many with my fingers and then gave them a lite dusting of Sevin dust. The pretty little blue butterfly is the culprit that lays its eggs on the kale and then they eat their way to maturity. That is the first of any insecticide I've used in the garden this summer, oh well.
I hung a load of laundry outside on the clothesline then decided I had better pick wine berries again as they are ripening rather quickly. I loaded up another plastic container of the sweet delicate berries so Nancy could get them ready for the freezer and then we can make jelly/jam at a later date. We decided since it was still overcast and the temps were still in the high 60's that it was a great time for our daily hike so out we headed to the top of the mountain. We saw that Ann and Sandy were up but were in the house so we didn't stop beside it was close to lunch time and we were hungry so we headed on down the mountain.
We had to leave the cabin around 3 as we had a couple errands to run in Sparta before heading out to the Tracy's for supper. We got into a game of Eucher why waiting to eat and the guys once more were in the groove with a big win and once more after supper with another win. Patrick and I are starting to get cocky as a team after 4 successful thrashings of the gals. It was still light outside after our delicious supper of tacos that were digesting so down off the hill we went on foot and out this gravel road to an old farm. Wow was it ever a nice evening and the walk was fantastic as we saw lots of old farm buildings that seemed abandoned and of course lots of cows and horses. Nancy entertained us with her ability to mimic animal language. We continued on foot and learned this walk is about a two hour hike one way so we turned around after about 45 minutes and headed back the way we came as dusk was approaching. The up hill walk back was a little tougher but we made it while pulling one of us up the last hill. We headed out for our cabin around 9. On our way home we noticed the Sparta fairgrounds were packed with campers awaiting the start of the 2 day fiddlers convention this weekend. While this event is not nearly the size and scope of the Galax convention in August the grounds were packed with RV's and tents and lots of bon fires were evident. We will miss this event as we are heading to Elk Creek tomorrow and then we have guests all day on Saturday from Hickory.
After hot showers and catching up on our social calendar for this coming weekend's events, I hit the sack around 11'ish for some horizontal lab, LATER
