Well the holiday season is upon us starting with today's family get togethers, eating some rich foods, football games and lots of hugs and well wishes for another year.
Wednesday was a busy day that started with my usual 6'ish roll out. I did my morning routines had my cup of hot green tea laced with some turmeric while I posted this ramble then spent some quiet time with my Creator in humble thanksgiving and intercessory prayer for those I know and Love especially Paw Paw who is still in the hospital in W.VA. Josie his oldest daughter lives in the area and keeps me and the others updated on his progress with her almost daily visits. I headed out around 8'ish for the Rec. on my bike for a solid non stop workout on the pickle ball court. We had 5 good players plus two other courts of B players so we A players managed to stay together for the entire two hours which made for some sore muscles this morning. I've been limiting myself to about an hour or so each day but with these good players on a court all to ourselves I went the extra hour, yikes am I ever stiff and sore this AM, oh well it was worth as we now have two days off with the Rec. closed until Saturday.
I stopped off at the library and picked up a book for GG before heading home to work in the yards and gardens. I fired up the mower and mowed the almost dried out lawns and sucked up lots of dried oak leaves and weeds which manage to grow even when there is no rain. I edged and then took the blower and cleaned the porches and sidewalk before heading to the back yard gardens. I had a couple dozen lettuces that needed to go into the ground so I got a space really for them as well as put the two pepper plants I had separated from a single pot into the ground. I got a bargain on the egg plant and bell pepper plants as there were two seedlings in one pot for the price of one. I separated them successfully and now have twice as many as I purchased of course one pot was almost four bucks at home depot. I had sowed extra half runner bean seeds and they are up as well. I now have kale and romaine lettuces up with two leaves and will soon move them into 9 packs before transplanting them into the garden. I grow as much as I can from seeds but egg plant, cabbage, collards, bell peppers and jalapeno's are so difficult to start from seeds.
Amy and the kiddos all came for lunch and she took off to shop while the kiddos and Phoenix our neighbor boy who is Ava's age came to play. They never stopped running around for the next couple of hours and little Eliza Faye was right with them. She is tough as nails and runs and plays with them the whole time. She is so proud of herself that now she is potty trained announcing to everyone when she does number two on the potty. We promised her when she uses the potty totally and turns three she can take ballerina lessons and she reminds us every time she is through. She is such a precious child with great expressions and her manners are impeccable for her age.
After Amy and the kiddos left we took off on a long bike ride through the hood as we missed yesterdays ride. It was such a beautiful day for a ride with a soft gentle breeze and plenty of sunshine. We came back and Nancy took down the laundry from the clothesline while I hand watered the gardens and yards. I set the sprinkler out front for a couple hours after supper so as to give what grass is still alive a drink. We had a Marie Callender chicken pot pie for supper. These are the tastiest pies ever and perfect when accompanied by a fresh salad. I checked the scale this morning and saw my lowest reading of 184; that's down 10 pounds from 3 weeks ago. I'm thrilled and have seen some reduction in the spare tire. I want to see 180 if possible then maintain. I've basically reduced my portions and stayed away from heavy foods and almost all desserts. The desserts is no problem for me but the breads, crackers, cheese, spuds and pastas are my weakness. I still have my glass of red vino before supper and an occasional cold one for lunch when working outside. So with the extra bike ride and pickle ball it's been fun dropping these few pounds.
We settled into the Fox Cable news channel and we love this newest personality Tucker Carson. He is a breath of fresh air and pulls no punches when he interviews these biased folks on the left. I think he will overtake O'Reilly with his in depth interviewing. I'm tired of Megn Kelly and wish that Hannity would move up to an earlier time slot, oh well. I tuned into the Lightning vs Flyers hockey game and they were losing in the third period when I shut the lights out 10'ish. I'll have to read about the final later.
Well we want to wish all a Happy Thanksgiving as we do have so much to be thankful for. We can rest assured that corruption and special interests will be stalled in our government with this election of Trump. The biased main stream media is put on notice that we the working class are fed up with their interference in elections as seen by their electing of a community organizer and the last 8 years of his inept leadership at home and abroad. We stood up and our voice was finally heard and while they are having a difficult time adjusting we sent the republicans to both houses of congress now lets hope we have some folks with some guts to right the ship, put folks back to work and restore our influence in the world with our military and be a beacon once again for liberty and individual freedoms which have sorely diminished when the democraps like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Obama. It's time to make America great again, LATER
