Well Saturday was a work day and did we ever get a lot accomplished and just before lunch we got in a second total hike this season. It was a beautiful outside with cool temps to start the day and it may have reached the 70 mark on our back porch in the late afternoon. nancy had a sweat shirt on most of the day but I found it just right for working. The sun was hot but the cool soft breeze kept it very nice and even helped to keep the gnats and deer flies away as well.
I started the day with my usual roll out a little before 6 to cool temps but the birds were singing in the trees and and dew drippings onto the tin roof from the upper dormer. The peace and serenity is just unmatched as our cabin is nestled down in the trees with a clear view of the blue skies overhead and the view of sunshine just touching the tallest tree tops. Yeow, what ambiance!! I spent a few quiet humble moments with my Creator while having my cup of hot turmeric drink and then posted this ramble from the day before's activities so our grand kiddos will experience some of these moments we have after we are gone. Hopefully they will grow to love this special place that we have been so blessed with to share with family and friends and they too will keep up this tradition as they will bring their kids to this beautiful place.
Nancy was still sleeping in so I headed out to check on the gardens and despite the loss of one cabbage plant everything looked great. After a breakfast of egg sandwiches on toast with sliced tomato, onion and dill pickle with mayo I headed outside. It was prepare your own as I wanted to get started. Nancy is a night owl and a sleep in gal and I'm just the opposite as I'm usually in the horizontal lab position by 10'ish and wide awake a little before 6, oh well!!! The grass was very wet from the heavy dew so I decided to work with my black raspberry plants that Jetta had given me last Fall. I have four that are doing quite well and hopefully if they are like hers I will have some berries next summer. Her bushes and new plants are so healthy and she will again this year have a harvest of what I consider the "cadillac" of berries.
I build a trellis and installed it for when the berry bushes begin to really branch out. Jetta has hers on a fence which is ideal but I didn't have the space by my garden so I located them near the backyard flower gardens. I then put wire cages around the tomato plants which have started to grow and staked my peppers especially the Jalapeno pepper which I brought from my Florida garden which is over waist high and just loaded with peppers. It was going on noon so we took off for the top of the mountain and the knees for both of us held up nicely. We did wear out braces which really helps when coming back down. We stopped and chatted with Joe and Jetta and with our visit it always turns to food and the preparation of it.
Well, Jetta mentioned she had baked a fresh rhubarb pie from her plant and asked it we would like to try it. I remember eating some years ago and wasn't all that thrilled but her recipe was the best in flavor ever and she blessed us with a piece to share and then gave us two to take with us. Wow, if that is not the best ever pie with just enough tartness along with the sweetness I don't know what is!!!. I didn't know but the leaves of the rhubarb plant is poisonous and only the stalks are used in food preparation. Well I must say I will always remember how great this pie tasted and I may try to grow a plant or two. Actually, when we got back to the cabin and after out lunch we ate those two pieces as well, yikes!!!
The grass had dried out so I fired up the riding mower and for the next couple hours really made the place look manicured. After mowing I added another coat of lime and fertilizer to the backwoods yard which still has an ever presence of moss in some areas. Hopefully this application will help with bringing the soil back so as to keep the moss away. The grass has done better but still not enough to keep this moss away, oh well!!! We worked around the yards and gardens pulling weeds and I replanted some seeds in the bare areas of the beets and beans which didn't germinate. The squash is setting little fruits and hopefully we will be pan frying some by the time the kiddos get here in two weeks. We are so excited to have them here all together so it should be a mad house but a fun one.
Well since I had a large lunch with the extra piece of pie afterwards I wasn't hungry for supper so I skipped it and around 7'ish popped a large bowl of corn, yeow one of our favorites, done the old fashion way on the stove with olive oil. Very tasty and that served us except for Nancy had some salad so she could take her scripts earlier in the evening. Well we watched American Pickers which is really a very good lesson in history as most stuff they buy and resell has a story and we watched that until was shower time for me around 9:30 and then I curled up with my book until lights out, LATER
Don't forget today is Sunday and a day we take to worship corporately with others and pray for healing for our country. The WORD say's if we repent and ask forgiveness he will heal our land and believe me we need some healing as the terrorist have infiltrated out country bringing their ideology and false religion to change our way of life and kill us if we don't acquiesce. America needs to wake up and expel those in our government who have allow these false teachings and ideals to even exist here that are contrary to our Judeo-Christian values and mores that we were founded on. This is a good example to those lib's and left leaning in their political views of what will happen when we take away the ideals of our very constitution upon which we were founded on. This present administration is the very essence of the disregard for what made US(A) a great nation and a light for the world.
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