Well Monday was another great day of exercise, work and beautiful weather although it was cloudy, the temps were perfect for being outside. I played pickle ball, worked outside in my garden and then did a few odd jobs for GG and then we took off on a good 5-6 mile bike ride through the hood before supper. Old muscles were screaming with lactic acid buildup but I'm sure after a few days riding this too will go away. We both need fat butt seats for the bike.
The day started with my usual 6'ish roll out. I sure wish at times I could get beyond that time for a sleep in but I can't hardly get by the 10 o'clock hour at nights to stay up, unless we are playing games with friends. I did my morning routines and then spent some quiet time with my Creator in thanksgiving and lifting up those I know and love who are hurting. We still haven'y gotten any word for the cause of the blood loss with Paw Paw but he seems to be eating better and wants to recover. The girls(Josie, Pat and Dee) look in after him and are in close proximity so they see him regularly. The few times I call he is unable to hear on the phone due to his lack of aids. We spoke with our mountain mom and her brother Joe is doing much better and is on the way back to his home in Sparta. Seems he has diverticulitis which is more common with old age and thus the bleeding. I'm beginning to wonder if that's maybe Paw Paw's problem as they both are about the same age.
We had a good crowd of pickle ballers at the Rec and I got in a good hour and half workout. It's taking some time to get back in shape but my stamina is showing up once again. I just wish I could reduce this spare tire more quickly. I've been eating an apple for breakfast and just a salad for lunch and just a meat and veggie for supper plus I've been on my feet all morning and most of the afternoon plus a bike ride. I'm still holding about 10 pounds more than I want, oh well. I dread the holidays with all of the goodies and delicious foods but I must show some restraint with small helpings and stay away from those pecan an apple pies. I still have my glass of red vino before supper which maybe the reason for the spare tire not reducing in size any quicker. I'm hoping I won't have to give that up.
I now have bush beans as well as half runners up so I built a wire fence for them to climb on which makes for easier harvesting. Everything else is looking good, especially the onions seedlings. I loosen the soil around them and then fed them with a mixture of garden magic which is a bunch of essential and trace elements along with some liquid fertilizer. They are hardy eaters. Today I will move up some lettuce seedlings into 9-packs for transplanting in a week or so. Lettuce does so much better here when planted individually instead of in a bed which is how its done in the mountain garden. I still haven't had any germination with some heirloom kale seeds so I sowed some regular seeds. The beets are producing great greens of which we add to our salads. These are the ones I brought back from the cabin and the replanted. The sugar peas are popping through the ground and should be climbing the fences in a few days. I still have that one large green tomato but now they are showing several small green ones on several of the tomato plants. I've just about used up all of the green ones that turned red from the mountain garden, oh they had such flavor after ripening in the window sill.
Well we took GG to the library them headed home to repaint the kitchen door and touch up a few areas as well as repainted the front porch bench with a second coat. I then cleaned out her gutters of leaves and debris before we headed back home. It was just 4:30 so we took off on a good 45 minute ride through the 'hood on our new bikes. It was a perfect day with temps in the low 70's and very little humidity despite the overcast skies. We need rain here as well as does the mountains. Helen said it was 19 degrees yesterday with a heavy frost that looked like snow on all the fields, oh well. I grilled a bone-in pork chop and we had fresh broccoli to accompany, yeow! After the cleanup we settled in to the Fox Cable News and see where the pundits who favored the criminal Hillary is already lambasting Trump. This will not cease for the next four years as these progressives in the media are so biased. Already Trump has made a difference on the world scene and he isn't president yet. Obama is out there on a world tour promoting his failed legacy in his last days which is a waste of time in my opinion. How did folks ever elect this incompetent a second time and give him a free ride for 8 years. The first time was because of his ethnicity but the second time? I voted neither time for this inept politician and I'm thrilled he is on his way out.
It will take sometime for Trump to bring the ship back to the upright position but I feel confident he is capable. The biased media will never help as we see them promoting all of the anti-Trump protests on the tube. They are as big a problem as the whiners and freeloaders who suck off the government tit along with academia who are just out there for their own agendas in promoting socialism. I surely hope Trump will continue to point out the hypocrisy of the media and the elites in D.C. and "drain the swamp", LATER
