Well Tuesday was a work day that had me in the basement for the biggest part of the day as I resurfaced about half of the floor. In between that I managed to transplant some seedlings and then we entertained our "mountain mom" Helen and her brother Joe for supper. We did get some rain in the late evening which helped with the grasses and gardens to get a good soaking.
The day started out with my usual before 6 roll out to my routines of a hot cup of turmeric, few a quiet moments with my Creator and then the posting of this ramble before I headed out to check on the gardens for any deer or slug damage. Everything looked great and I now finally see some good growth on many of the garden veggies and the Zinnias in the front circle bed have four leaves and are about 3-4 inches in height. Hopefully they will be as beautiful there as they have been around the upper gardens.
I ate a lite breakfast of oatmeal, cinnamon and honey before heading down to the basement to start on the floor. I scrape it, swept it, scrubbed it and then vacuumed it before I got ready to give it a coat of Lock-Down which is like a primer that is supposed to help hold the paint to the concrete. The first time I ever painted the raw concrete I should have done that process but I just painted it and it looked OK but eventually stated peeling and bubbling which made for an unsightly look. Well I gave it a good coat of grey floor paint with added dry paint chips to give it that finished look and wow did it ever turn out nice. I want to do the other side today which will encompass the same procedures.
While waiting for the wet cleaned floor to dry I headed out to both gardens and transplanted some lettuce seedlings which lived while in individual 9 packs(which is the way I do it in Florida). Usually I've had very little luck with growing them it into heads here for some reason but these look decent and already had several leaves. I transplanted some in both gardens as well as about a dozen Kale seedlings. They didn't look as good as the lettuces but hopefully they will make as I lost about half of them during the move up into 9 packs. I found out all but one sugar pea seedling died or the seeds rotted in the ground. oh well!! My experiment with starting seeds in a wet paper towel only worked with the radishes and not the peas or okra.
Nancy had pork chops thawing for our supper with Helen and Joe along with black beans and Jasmine rice and a fresh salad, yeow what a feed that turned out to be. I grilled the chops to perfection on my new grill and they were done in no time. We had a glass of my homemade blackberry vino from last years batch that I had picked the berries from her fields. They stayed until nearly 6 when the skies began to cloud up and eventually it rained for a quite awhile. I cancelled on the pickle ball outing due to the weather.
Well that was about it for the day except I misplaced my one pair of reading glasses and finally after searching inside and on the porches I headed out to the truck for a spare pair. I have no idea where they went or what I could have done with them, oh well. Nancy and I finished up some ice cream around 7:30 and that kept me awake until 11'ish which is very unusual for me and so I need to read and could not find them, oh well, LATER
