Well Tuesday once again saw our wishes fulfilled as we got another deluge of rain. We were away from the cabin from about 3:30 on and when we got back around 9'ish the windows were blasted with water from a blowing rain and the underside of the back porch floor was wet and that only comes from blowing rain. Anyhow we are finally caught up on wet weather and now we just want a shower occasionally. The temp's really drop in the morning from this rain and it's down to the low 60's and even a few high 50's which make for good sleeping during the night.
Well I started the morning with a 6'ish roll out to my usual morning routines of a hot cup of green tea, a few moments to honor my LORD with thanksgiving and to lift up those I know who are in need of some divine intervention for healing and restoration; and to then ramble on about what we did the day before in this written account which I hope will give my grand children after I'm gone some insight into who I was in real life. This written account or blog is also like a pal to me as I get to share some of my thoughts on what made me the way I am as well as share about some life's experiences.
I was sharing with someone the other day that growing up in the country without running water in the house meant no bathroom with no commode, shower or even hot water and that made for a real life experience as I pumped our water from a well into buckets. We had water buckets with a community dipper as well as a community pan for washing your face and hands before eating. There was even one farm that I helped each year with the thrashing of grains like wheat, oats and barley where all of the water came from an above ground spring with live trout in the water right next to the house. The water was so clear, cold and so refreshing and I never gave it a thought as to it's cleanliness with the two huge trout that lived in the spring. Many times I drank straight from the creeks while carefully watching for salamanders and snakes that hide along the creek banks. I never gave it a thought to where this cold mountain water originated.
We had some eggs and grits for breakfast and after the cleanup I headed out to check on the gardens and found several sugar peas big enough to eat. We put some in our salad for lunch. I harvested lettuces, swiss chard, kale, spinach and beet greens for the making of a huge bowl of salad. We were invited over to the Tracy's for their last meal this summer at their rental cabin along with Sam and Marcia and contributed a fresh garden salad to the meal. Cleaning and spin drying the produce takes quite some time so I cleaned and Nancy used the salad spinner to wring out the excess water.
We took off to the top of the mountain for our daily hike. It was some what cloudy and humid and the gnats were aggravating us the whole way to and back. We had to cut switches from the bushes to keep them from our head. I often wondered what or who do they annoy when no humans are around? Oh well, we saw no one on our hike except for a couple workman who are remodeling one of the houses on top. The Browning's were gone who we usually stop and chat with daily and pet Zeke. We came back and chowed down on the delicious fresh garden salad and I must say the cucumbers are the sweetest ever this year and so plentiful. Still no ripe tomatoes but several are picking size.
I headed to the top of the mountain in the golf cart to gather cuttings from the wild raspberry bushes. I started about 7 pots of the cuttings as I learned this is the time of the year to make them and then transplant them into the ground before cold weather. You just cut them into about 8-10 inch segments from the woody runners and keep them moist for a couple weeks and they should produce roots. I added a little root tone to each end of the cutting to see if that starts to root them quicker. Oh well nothing ventured means nothing gained and we love the taste and flavor of black raspberries over plain blackberries. If they all make I'm having a difficult time picking out a spot to have another berry patch since I have wine berries every where down below the gardens.
I piddled around the yards and gardens doing some hoeing and pulling weeds until it was time to sit in the shade on the back porch and read for an hour or so before getting ready to head out to the Tracy's. We made a veggie stand stop on the way for tomatoes, onions and peaches and then dropped off a book at the library. I had a real scare at the veggie stand as I could not find my wallet. The last I remember having it in my back pocket was at the music center Saturday night as I like to keep it in the side pocket of the truck. Well low and behold after a rather worrisome evening at the Tracy's wondering what all I would have to do, who to call and cancel and how to go about getting new Id's if it really was lost; we found it on top of my dresser at the cabin when we got home. Thankfully!!!
Well Patrick and Kathryn grilled superb hamburgers, Marcia brought potato salad and we contributed a garden salad to the final supper with them on the mountain this summer. Hopefully they can come back up here after their couple weeks in Costa Rica and then they head out west to Lake Tahoe where they will pick us up at the airport on Sept 11 for about 2 weeks of seeing parts of Nevada and California. This will be a real treat for us especially forNancy as she hasn't ever been west of Alabama and riding on an airplane since a teenager. We are looking forward to reuniting with them along with neighbors Carol and Dan for this trip. It should be a hoot as we all like to cut up, play card games and sight see as well as honor our Creator, LATER
