Well Wednesday was a shopping day trip to Galax, Va. then a supper out at the new farm house for Kay and Gerald Luffman's. Wow did she ever have a delicious garden grown meal. We didn't do much of anything except I finished a book while waiting to head to Sparta before our get together for supper. We made a couple stops in town(Sparta) at the library, Walgreens and a couple grocery stores looking for the right size zucchini squashes. Kay supplied us with three from her garden and we found the rest at Lowe's grocery. The men with the help of Mechelle finally won in Sequence as Patrick was under the weather and missed the supper and the game that followed.
The day started much the usual for me with a 6'ish roll out. I'm still not use to it being dark outside at that hour but as the season progress's I will need to get use to it. I did my usual morning routines with a cup of hot green tea laced with some turmeric, a few quiet moments to honor my Creator and then the posting of this ramble. I must digress and mention the knee even after two hours of some fast paced pickle ball last evening felt great. I really feel the reason the knee is doing so well is because of this herb turmeric taken daily in the morning in a hot drink has made the difference, oh well!!!
I headed out to check on the gardens and picked another handful of cucumbers as well as several jalapeno peppers and a couple small tear drop shaped tomato's. The 1/2 runner green beans are showing color in both gardens where I sowed the seeds just 5 days ago, yeow that is fantastic and I've a feeling they will make with a good fall harvest. The seeds were a couple years old as well so I figured they were through but I was wrong, thankfully. I need to pick the Kentucky Wonder green beans today(Thur.) from my garden which houses most of my herbs. I had to purchase a cilantro plant yesterday as mine had gone to seed. I think I will keep this one in a pot instead of planting it in the ground so I can take it back to Florida this fall.
I loaded up the truck with garbage for a stop on the way to town as we left the homestead around 10:30. We did most of our shopping at the super Wal-Mart but did see where the Food City marquee had chuck roasts on sale so we made a gas stop there as well for the meat. Their gas was 12 cents a gallon cheaper than anywhere else. After we were loaded up with groceries and gas we got back to the cabin close to 2 o'clock and had a lite lunch of a tomato, onion and mayo sandwich for me. Nancy purchased some deli meat for her's but a good old fashion 'mater one was for me. We chilled and read the rest of the day until it was time to run more errands in the town of Sparta. We made a stop at Kay's on the way to drop off an ice cream pie which was one of the desserts along with Kathryn's awesome French silk pie for supper. I picked up Grisham's book ROGUE LAWYER as well as a Ken Follett book. Nancy found a couple Debbie Maccomber books so we have plenty for our down time the next week or so.
Gerald and Kay sold their in town home and moved to a 1936 farm house adjacent to their farm outside of town. The house has so much character and their views are awesome with no real close neighbors except for Mechelle and Caleb across the pasture. It's a genuine rock house with bead board ceilings, wooden floors and two fireplaces. It's awesome with an upstairs as well. They can look out and see their farm animals in the pasture with their horses coming up to the fence next to their driveway. The valley setting is beautiful with the Blue Ridge Parkway a top the mountain beyond their house and barns. They now can walk down to their farm or work as Gerald say's. Kay had potatoes, tomatoes, cream corn and green beans out of her garden along with pork chops and garlic bread. Kathryn and Nancy brought the desserts and we put the "feed bag" on. Afterwards we played 5 games of Sequence and the guys with the help of Mechelle prevailed for the first time in many moons. I know it pained her to switch and play with us but she didn't willingly as we were a man down with Patrick under the weather. We headed out just before dark for the cabin and got to watch a close game between the kids of New York and Kentucky in the world series with the Yorkers winning in the last inning, LATER
