Well Thursday once again was a busy day that started with pickle ball, a second coat of paint in the dining room, a trip to Sam's Club and finally some afternoon garden work. The weather was perfect with temps in the middle 70's and lots of sunshine and blue skies. I even hung a load of laundry outside on the clothesline as it was a perfect day with no humidity.
I started the day with a before 6'ish rollout to a cup of hot green tea as the morning temps were a bit nippy in the low 50's but by 10'ish it was middle 60's and only got better by noon. I spent a few minutes posting this ramble then a few quiet minutes honoring my Creator with a thanksgiving prayer and then for several by name. GG sounded the best ever on the phone around supper time. Her speech is back to normal and now she is walking some with a walker albeit's with a therapist but there is some progress. Haven't heard from Paw Paw for a couple of days as he use to call once a week and Helen's brother Joe is doing great considering all he went through. Our friend Dana who had back surgery is home and doing well.
I headed out around 8'ish and got in two good hours of pickle ball play at the Rec. then stopped off at the library for a couple new reads before heading home to hand water the gardens. I think most everything made it and I harvested a nice mess of Swiss chard for our supper that accompanied a grilled bone-in pork chop. The bone-in's are so much juicier than the tenderloin on the grill and with some fat marbling they are so much better tasting and of course I'm a bone picker. It's funny how you remember things from your youth and my bio mom was a bone picker when ever she came to visit me while I lived with Paw Paw her brother. We loved to have GG for supper with those bone-in chops as she was just the opposite and always gave me her bone-in chop after cutting out the center portion; now Nancy is some what of a bone picker but not as through as me, oh well.
We loaded up on goodies at Sam's and I saw and old deputy friend from years past and he just moved back to Florida after selling out in N.C. We have some friends in common who use to back me up on the road on those midnight shifts. We were such few troopers on the road and there were always plenty of deputies around to help. I for one was most thankful for their added help especially in some of the less savory crime laden areas. We stopped at Lowes for some knobs for the new coffee table Dan and Carol are refinishing for us then headed home.
After the cleanup from supper we settled into the Fox News Network until 7'ish and I checked out one of the HBO channels and saw the movie Sandlot which is about neighborhood kids playing baseball and their adventure with a junk yard dog. It was really a cute movie and one I could identify with my two close buddies, Brian and Pud growing up playing ball in an empty hay field on the farm. After the movie I hit the showers and then tuned into the Lightning hockey game who were playing in Canada. I watched the first period then it was lights out for me at 10 with the score tied. I noticed this morning they went on a scoring drive and won 7-4. They are still in first place in their division and hopefully will make the playoffs this year, LATER
