Well Monday sure gave us some relief from the drought as it rained most of the night with over an inch of rain which really was a great soaking rain and then again during the night it's now raining. A soft rain but I'm ready for some sunshine. I had drug out the hoses on Sunday evening and it never fails once I hand water we get rain the next day and too of course this week in Galax is the Fiddlers Convention which seems to be a rain magnet, oh well. We sure needed this rain. My garden is growing with lots of color from the seeds I sowed two weeks ago. My hope is that we will be here to harvest some of the bounty.
Monday found us inside most of the day except for a trip to visit our "mountain mom" and then to Sparta to run some errands. The sun did come out for awhile between the rain showers. I did a "dump trip" to the landfill as we now are not supposed to burn our trash, picked up a script for Nancy at the drug store and she did some shopping in town while I sat and read. We did a veggies stand stop on the way out of town for some items before getting back at the cabin sometime after two. She had a salad for lunch and I stuck with some nuts that needed eating washed down with a Bud. I found out Budweiser is offering scholarships to disabled vets family members and found that to be a worthy cause so I will support them with my business although I'm a Yengling Beer fan when I have a cold one after working outside or with a pizza, oh well.
We postponed our daily hike with the threat of rain in the evening. I did meander around the gardens and noticed the lettuce has now added a fourth leave and so has some of the Zinnias seedlings. Most of the sad looking cucumber seedlings I bought have died except for one which has new growth and possibly another one looks somewhat still alive. The pepper plants are holding their own and may make. I did notice a new sprout coming from one of the garlic hills which I planted a week or so ago. I have 14 hills from a bulb that my ole' USAF buddy(Mike) brought to me last year that he grows in New York. I'm hoping these make and are as beautiful as the ones he gave me. The 1/2 runner green beans are about 5-6 in height and I have so many plants I may have to thin them out and then again I may not. It seems the old seeds from a couple years ago were still viable and everyone of the hundred or so seeds I sowed have sprouted and are now up, oh well. I did harvest some kale from the two plants that either lived the winter months and or reseeded themselves which I think the former is true as I remember having one plant last year with two stalks together in one plant and this is what is now growing in my former lower garden. I took out the fencing around that area and once these plants die I will no longer use that area for veggies, oh well.
The update on GG is not great. It seems she was doing so well on Saturday there was talk of moving her out of the facility back to our home area via ambulance, but she has slipped considerably and is now not eating or taking very little nourishment by mouth and has no control what so ever of her bowels and is basically sleeping with just a few moments of lucidity. Eric's wife Diane is back in Miami and her prognosis isn't encouraging for her to be released anytime soon as now the doctor has down graded her for any release from the facility whereas on Saturday she was looking good for release if she continued on her rehab. She is having difficulty holding her head up much less doing any PT. It has become another day to day situation with her conditions. Nancy was on the phone for hours with Miami, Eric and Betsy on what decisions should be made and when regarding care for GG.
We cleaned up the zucchini pie for supper and after I washed the dishes and did the cleanup I settled into the FOX Cable News channel to learn we have a pro active POTUS who has issued sanctions on N.Korea as well as the 15 member UN security council has agreed on them as well. Someone needs to take this leader of N.Korea out behind the barn and teach him some manners and to feed his people. Maybe these sanctions will wake him up or maybe a nuke to his palace will do him in and put him to sleep forever. I did find the Little League World Series on the tube and watched a good East Texas team annihilate a Louisiana team, LATER
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