Well Monday was almost a summer day and Nancy contemplated turning the a/c back on which is a couple months before we usually do. It got up into the low 80's by late afternoon but a gentle breeze made it tolerable. The Oak leaves are falling like rain so this warm spell will start the new budding season with the fuzzies which are messy as they get into and on everything outside for a week or more. Also we will see the pollen count go up with the yellow dust floating in the air, oh well!
I started the day with my usual before 6 roll out. I did my routines of a few quiet moments and then the posting of this ramble before having an apple for my breakfast. I like this new breakfast food which seems to hold me until lunch time along with my handful of Nutrilite vitamins and supplements. I just wish I could lose a little off this spare tire that clings to me but I'm getting plenty of exercise on the pickle ball courts. We had a three courts in action with plenty of decent players and the wet shirts were evident among many of us. After and hour and half I called it a day and headed home with a stop at the library.
I did a load of laundry and then worked in the garden. I can really tell a difference since I've been spraying a solution of epson salt on most of my veggies, especially the green beans, peppers, tomato's and cucumber seedlings. I sure hope the cukes make it this time as I started them from seeds and then I sowed more Bibb and Romaine lettuce seeds. I need to harvest beans again today as the new plants are really starting to produce. I think we are having the Ross Family over for one of my favorites for a supper of beef and green beans with oyster extract in the sauce over Jasmine rice. The sugar peas despite being damaged and blown down off the fence have recovered with their white blooms ever present on the remaining dozen or so plants. They grew so tall that a couple feet of them were above the 4 ft. chain link fence that I grow them on so the strong wind from the front last week broke several off.
Amy, GG and Eliza Faye all came for a lunch of fresh garden salad, about the only things we were adding to it not from the garden is tomato, cukes and black olives. Eliza loves black olives and can eat a whole can at one sitting. After they left for the day I got into a book about the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sun that was captured when they tried to board a Russian oil platform in the Arctic. The 30 on board were caught and sentenced to 15 years in a Russian prison for piracy. The title of the book is DON'T TRUST, DON'T FEAR, DON'T BEG by Ben Stewart. It's a real page turner and the incident received world attention. The story describes their day to day prison life before being released.
We had so much food leftover from Sunday's birthday supper for Bobby that we decided to have GG, Amy and the kiddos over for supper. The leftover's were even more tastier than the day before especially the King Ranch Chicken casserole as well as the yellow rice and black beans. I did pull my first jalapeno pepper from the garden to add a little fire and spice to mine. Ava is also a jalapeno lover and wanted some added to her food as well. No one else wanted to indulge. It was the first from this plant and it wasn't intolerable but had a nice flavor as well. After the cleanup the Ross Family headed out and dropped GG off at her place. We settled into the FOX News channel to check on the first voting for this up and coming presidential election in November. Lets hope Americans wake up and choose someone from outside the political establishment. The country is at a cross roads in our very existence as we once new it to be. This potus has led US(A) down a road that will take decades for our grandchildren to pay down our debt and make US(A) a nation that will honor our founding fathers concept of a nation of freedoms and liberties with a small or limited government, LATER
