Well this is the last day of this month and the time has just flown by. September will see us taking a trip back to Florida to visit with family and friends and to celebrate grandkids and grandma's birthdays. Yesterday, Tuesday was a mixture of work, exercise with a nice hike and then some down time with a golf cart ride to our "mountain mom's" place in the afternoon and then some pickle ball for me until 8 o'clock last evening. I shared some of my garden bounty with her in the form of fresh beets, peppers and cucumbers. I picked a handful of her Concord ripe grapes on the way out of her drive and spit the seeds on my ride home. They were so tasty and delicious and usually by the time they are ripe the turkeys and crows have cleaned the vines. Too bad I'm not making wine this year.
The morning started with my usual roll out around 6. It's still dark outside but I'm getting use to the day's getting shorter especially in the evening. On my way back from pickle ball at 8'ish the daylight was fading fast whereas a couple weeks ago it was close to 9:30 an I could still see out into the back woods, oh well. The forecast for this winter here in the mountains is for lots of snow days as there were several days of fog this past month. I had my cup of hot tea laced with turmeric to wash down a handful of my Nutrilite vitamins and supplements which are the best and grown organically in America and manufactured here as well. You can not buy them on the market but only through an Amway distributer. I credit my energy and good health in part to these daily supplements which I have been using for several years now.
I posted this ramble and then spent some time with my Creator in thanksgiving and humbleness for my blessing and lifting up several that I know and love as well as those who are hurting. I pray for our nation daily and for some competent leadership who will put America first and return to our roots of how and why this nation has been so successful and was once a beacon of hope to others who are downtrodden throughout the world. Our Judeo-Christian principles are the reason but we have been so lax in honoring these principles that now the liberal and left leaning atheists are destroying our culture with just the opposite. Things that were bad and evil are now being presented even with our politicians as good and our nation is in moral decay. The elitist are held in high esteem especially with regard to what their decisions are which is usually anti-American, anti-family, anti-christian and anti-law abiding. We are on the road to internal destruction much like the great Roman empire which was once so powerful, influential and rich throughout the world.
I finally finished staking and putting a climbing fence for the October beans in the lower garden. I had to piece together chicken wire for them to climb on but its so much easier standing to harvest than bending over. I harvested another half dozen cucumber , a couple of small tomato's and a squash and a couple of okra. Nancy fried the yellow squash and okra for our supper. We ate lite once again throughout the day with just a garden fresh salad for lunch loaded with cucumber and tomato. I had eggs(cackleberries) with tomato, cucumber and jalapeno pepper cut up in my plate. I actually feel a little thinner around the middle with these past couple of day of work, hiking, pickleball and lite eating with mainly fresh veggies. Hopefully I can continued for another pound or inch off the spare tire. It's so easily to accumulate the tire but so difficult to get rid of, oh well!
I've just about finished the new read by Ken Follett and excited about starting a new read. He is an awesome story teller and keeps you right in the mix as if you are witnessing the very story. I'm disappointed I've never read him before but he has lots of books so I will be busy with his stories for the next several months. I have 2 at the Sparta library waiting for me to pick up today, Wednesday.
Well that was about it for the day as the temps seem to have dropped a couple of degrees and this weekend the high is only 70, yeow. Nancy will have her sweats on, LATER
