Well Friday was most unusual as I awakened to rain dripping from the roof and heavy fog that enclosed the cabin all morning and most of the afternoon. We needed the moisture and the rain gauge showed a quarter of an inch. Did we ever need that but most important was that it was a soaking rain with the lack of any sunshine during the day. We did get out after lunch for a hike to the top of the mountain but there was no visibility in the distance.
I was up a little after 6 and did my usual morning routines that started with a handful of supplements washed down with my cup of hot green tea laced with the spice turmeric while I posted this ramble and then spent a few quiet minutes with my Creator. We learned that Aunt Daryl has passed on during the evening. It was she who we had gone to see in Lancaster earlier this week. She was in her final days after suffering a stroke at the age of 93. We lifted up her family as they now grieve her passing. We also lifted up Paw Paw as he is still recuperating in the hospital as well as several who are hurting. We got a call from Kimberly that her small dog had disappeared and she was longing for its return or at least to know what had happened to it.
Nancy put in some laundry and for a change had to use the dryer as it stayed cool and foggy most all of the day. I did harvest some cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers but mainly stayed round the cabin reading as it was just to wet and soggy to do anything else. We were still getting over being on the road for the past couple of days. We saw no one on top of the mountain as the Browning's and the Avant's(Billy and Paula) were gone. They will be here full time this winter but are still traveling back and forth to the coast for now. We will start to pack and put the cabin and the yard in order today for our extended trip to Florida Monday morning for a couple of weeks.
We have several birthdays to celebrate, lots of babysitting and of course getting the gardens in shape for the winter plantings. I'll take some volunteer tomato plants as well as some marigolds seedlings back with us this time and plant around the tomato's to help with nematode control. They are what is know as "root knot" that sucks the life out of plants, especially tomato's. Speaking of tomato's ours here at the cabin are producing abundantly so I will take a basket of them with us as well as cucumbers, peppers and jalapeno's for our Florida family and friends. Well I did managed to watch a little Ray's baseball last evening and saw them blow 4-0 lead over the Orioles. It no wonder they have no chance this year to make the playoff's with their poor pitching, LATER
