Well Friday was another busy day filled with fun on the pickle ball court and then again outside cleaning up the neighbor's tree I sawed down on Thursday and getting it to the curb for the trash pickup as well as working once again to enlarge the hole for the new tree I'm planting next week.
I started the day much the usual with a before 6'ish roll out to my standard cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble and the gave thanks for another day to my Creator as well as lifted several up by name. I spoke with Paw Paw and he definitely is losing his short term memory and complained of pain in his shoulder and knee all of which came from falling down the steps in the house he say's he will never leave. Our mistake was to let him go back there to live after his rehab from the hip replacement. Our "mountain mom" is doing well as is her brother Joe who is now back permanently in his house as the sale fell through. Spring has finally come through but there is another cold front coming through later this weekend with rain and possible snow showers. I would like to see some rain here in central Florida as we are very dry.
I got in two good hours of pickle ball play before stopping off at the library was a couple new reads I had ordered. After getting home I decided to clean up the limbs and leaves from the Mango tree that were left in my neighbor Carol's back yard. She is such a worker and her son is not very helpful but he does work every night at a pizza place on the beach and goes to school. I remember the biblical saying we should help the widows and orphans and she is that trying to raise her son on her own. So I headed over with clippers and black bags and chopped up the limbs and loaded up 5 huge black bags of limbs and leaves then stacked the wood in a corner so she could eventually give away to the neighbors behind her who are always having bon fires. I got these out to the curb and then helped to load them into the garbage truck later in the morning. We also had 6 cans of the chopped up tree they took away as well.
I spent the rest of the morning enlarging the hole in the middle of the stump in the front yard as I want to plant a rather large tree next week. I once again fertilized and watered the new grass through out the day as well as the back yard and gardens. I now have a small bunny rabbit in the gardens as I thought I saw one the other day but mistook it for a rat. Amy saw it while looking out the bay window in the kitchen at lunch. He is so little and I'm at a lost as to how he got in the yards through the chain link fence. We watched him or her eating some greens and he did in one of my cilantro plants. There isn't much except lettuces and kale that he can eat but I will keep an eye out for further damage. I may have to trap him and take him to the park. This is the first time in 39 years I've ever had a rabbit in the garden. He must have slipped through when we left the side gate open one night after watering with the hose, oh well.
I worked outside until dark once again after supper and I notice lots of the patches of St.Augustine grasses that were dormant have come to life where there use to be only weeds. The big oak sucked so much of the water from the yard and now that its gone the grasses are coming to life. The daily waterings are really making a big difference. Today (Sat) we head over to Brandon to watch grandson Gabe play baseball, LATER
