Well this morning is a first for me in quite awhile as I over slept or just plain didn't awake at my usual time of 6'ish but instead it was nearly 7:30, yikes that was nice for a change. I suppose working on digging out that tree stump made the difference. Oh well it doesn't take much to excite this mundane life style once in awhile.
I started Tuesday with much the same or usual routines before heading after a mountain breakfast of sausage, egg biscuits slathered with fresh horseradish. I must say the frozen biscuits we purchase at Wal-Mart are just like homemade ones with none of the mess. Just pop them in the oven for about 20 minutes at 375 and they are so fluffy and delicious. Never would I have thought they would be so good.
After a few quiet moments and the posting of this rag I changed into my grubby work clothes fired up the golf cart and loaded it with tools and headed up to the sawed down tree stump. Well I sweated for 2 hours until lunch time digging, shoveling and sawing off roots as I got about half way through getting the under ground roots cut off. I want to be able to wrap a log chain around the middle of the stump from underneath it and pull it with a tractor the rest of the way out of the hole. It just so happens neighbor Gerald is down from Blacksburg for a couple days and he has agreed to pull on the stump after lunch on Wednesday with his tractor. Hopefully that will save me many more hours of digging on my hands and knees.
Well after cleaning up from all of the dirt and sweat we took off on our daily hike to the top of the mountain. The place was like a ghost town as just a few workers were at one cabin working on the renovations at Shawnee's place but other than them it was very quiet on top. Well the temp's were in the low 70's and the fog spiraling up between the mountain ridges were beautiful which cut down on the long distance views. We came back and had some crackers with peanut butter and cream cheese around 1:30 as the biscuits were still keeping us from being hungry. We decided to head over to our "mountain moms" and her brother Joe place to be pick jalapenos and green peppers of which he had plenty and wanted to rid his garden of the plants. I took her another mess of beets as well. We picked a couple dozen of the peppers and then shared them with Gerald when we got back to the cabin.
Well we sat around and read the rest of the afternoon until it was time to start the grill for a couple marinated chicken breasts that accompanied fresh sauteed sugar snap peas and a yellow squash as well a fresh cooked carrots. I loaded the breasts with fresh rosemary and thyme as they cooked, yeow what a delicious supper. It rained off and on for most of the evening as we settled into the Fox News channel until it was shower time and then a few chapters of LOVE DOES by Bob Goff, LATER
