Well Monday was another beautiful sunny warm day with temps in the low 80's and the humidity wasn't bad as of yet. It was also a busy day for me as I started the day with a before 6 roll out while Nancy did sleep in until nearly 7. I did my usual morning routines that started with the cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble then spent some with my Creator in lifting up several by name and in thanksgiving for another day and all the blessings of life. Afterwards I got ready to ride to the Rec. to meet up with 4 other men and we car pooled down to Madeira Beach for 2 1/2 hours of pickle ball on the outside court. What a different game that is from the inside game where you must allow for the sun and wind. It was a great workout and it felt good to be outside.
I got back around 11 and hand watered the gardens then had a bite of lunch. We were expecting a technician from WOW to pull new lines from the living room and bedroom through the attic to the box outside. A young lady came around 2 ish and did she ever manage to go in the attic as one of the lines would not pull cleanly. It was a hot nasty job and she was a real trooper but the job got completed and hopefully no more issues with this form of communications. They spent several hours getting our service right and we are thankful for that.
The furniture man came for just a few minutes and informed us when furniture is put together in the states they use a metal band inside and when it's put together overseas they use a velcro type band and when its new you hear what sounds like your skin is clinging to the seat when getting up after setting for a while. We were relieved to hear that and wanted it noted in case something wasn't right. He was in and out in 10 minutes flat. I headed out to the back yard to mulch up 13 bags of leaves I had taken from a neighbors yard. It took me 5 wheelbarrow trips to get them home and two hours to mulch them and put in the garden for my worms to digest and turn it into plant food. The garden is looking good all except the Swiss chard which the nematodes have discovered. I noticed a couple of the plants looking wilted despite the watering and checked the roots and they looked like knots. These microscopic worms suck all of the nutrients from the plants and they eventually wilt and die. Because we have no freeze of the soil here in Florida they are rampant.
Nancy had a deer roast we brought back from the mountains that neighbor Gerald had killed on our property in the crock pot overnight and most of the day and it smelled so delicious and it was superb with awesome gravy. All of the kiddos loved it and we had plenty with some to share with Tyler and enough for my lunch for today. I would never eat beef again it I could get this meat regularly. I suppose I shouldn't rely on someone else to kill it and start myself but I enjoy the eating too much although we killed hogs every Thanksgiving for as long as I can remember before leaving home.
Well after supper and the cleanup the Ross Family headed home as it was back to school for the kiddos this morning so I hit the shower and then watched Fox News and some of the Olympics. They have been kind of boring to me with the announcers from NBC and by 10'ish I was ready for some horizontal lab, LATER
