Well its been a busy two weeks since we left Florida and wow have we accomplished a ton of things that beautified the grounds and the cabin. Its been non stop and Saturday was no exception as it was a total work day, I was mainly outside and Nancy inside however we did take a few moments and watched the horse race while eating supper.
The morning started much the usual with a 6'ish roll out for me. I did my morning quiet time to honor my Creator and then posted this ramble. Nancy awakened sometime around 7 as she is a night owl and comes to bed some time around midnight whereas I'm usually between the sheets around 10 after reading sometimes a chapter or two. The TV is beautiful with the new HD picture but by the time I come into the house its usually close to 9 so its shower time and then I'm so relaxed I just want to read a few pages then out like a light, oh well. Nancy was watching the movie Castaway when I got out of the shower and I did watch about 10 minutes of that before turning in. Now I could have done that in real life as I thrive on man vs natural elements.
After a breakfast of buckwheat pancakes with a ripe banana in the batter and a couple of over easy cackleberries on top I headed outside to check on the gardens and then took the golf cart out to the mailbox. It was cool in the hollers as I headed down toward the small creek that runs along the drive for a short distance but eventually it warmed up to be our hottest day yet. The highest reading was close to 75 and very muggy but in the shade it was quite pleasant. I worked in the lower garden as two rows of pole beans had broken ground and I wanted to get posts in the ground to hold the chicken wire which they will climb making it much easier to harvest them as well as saving space for the next crop. I checked on my sugar peas of which I had started between wet paper towels for germination and that didn't work as the one's I had sowed never came up except for one pea, oh well nothing ventured nothing gained. The radishes did OK with that start but the okra hasn't done well at all either, so maybe I will forego that experiment in the future.
The recent transplants from my Florida garden are doing fantastic and the Jalapeno is producing tons of small fruit and will be ready to eat in a couple of days. The herbs are doing great as well. I did lose a couple Morning Glory seedlings for some reason as maybe a cut worm like their taste but I still have several surviving. The Zinnias in the front bed are doing nicely and showing lots of good green as that germination is working from last years seeds. I took down most of the upper garden fence as the railing and supports were rotting. I headed up into the woods with my chain saw and took down a couple small pines that were less than stellar in growth for the replacement rails. That kept me busy for the rest of the morning and into the afternoon.
After an apple for lunch( as I had a huge 3 cake breakfast) I burned a pile of scrap wood, limbs and trash from the replacement of the new wood on the benches and garden fence. Each day it seems lots of dead limbs from the trees in the backwoods yard liter the grass so its necessary to keep them off of the grass. My work horse the golf cart is very useful in saving me lots of steps daily as I traverse up and down these hills. Well, it was honey-do jobs the rest of the day until we stopped for a delicious supper of spaghetti, yeow we had brought some sauce and kept it frozen for a day when we just wanted a quick no frills meal. Nancy had been busy inside with cleaning the wood floors and general house cleaning as we get ready for the Tracy's on Monday.
It was a busy day and we both were whipped by evening time but did manage to check the garden after supper; hand watering and pulling some missed weeds. The flowers are pretty already and the major ones haven't bloomed yet; the cones, daisy's, bee balm, corral bells, zinnias, black eyed Susan's are budding up and when they do bloom there will be such a sea of color. We are excited for our kids and grand kids to see and be a part of this beauty that we have created in the middle of the woods. Wow, such beauty from small seeds. Well that was about it for a Saturday in the mountains at the cabin and today we head to Sparta for worship at Cornerstone Church then out to lunch with some friends from Elk Creek, Virginia who we haven't seen since last October. We will make several stops while in town at the library, grocery store and veggie stand, LATER
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