Well Tuesday saw us with heavy rain in the afternoon and evening and once again stuck in heavy traffic as we made our way over to Tampa for the evening awards ceremony at Belle Shoals Christian School where Annsley and Gabe attend. It took us two hours to make the 50 miles or so drive.
I started the day much the usual with a before 6 roll out to my cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble then spent some time in thanksgiving and prayer for several by name. All of those are doing as well as can be expected. I spoke with Paw Paw and Nancy spoke with her mom in Michigan on the way back from Tampa last evening. I headed out for the rec. around 8 and got in two solid hours of pickle ball play and then headed home to catch up on some garden and yards chores before it rained again. The grass is growing so fast and I had started several clipping in the garden which now all had roots so it was time to get them in the bare spots around the yards with all of the daily rain. Nancy was at the rec. doing her workout on the treadmill.
The internet is still not working properly as it goes down quite frequently but at least I'm able to get this ramble out the past couple of days. We have another scheduled tech coming this morning to try and figure out the issues; hopefully they can determine the problem and correct it. I pulled my first black beauty egg plant and we had it for our lunch, yeow was it ever delicious fried and then we added several different herbs from the garden along with some left over salsa; that was our lunch. I know frying is not supposed to be that good for you but fried yellow squash, okra, green tomato's and egg plant are the best ever. I have several other egg plants in various sizes coming on so I will be giving them away to friends and neighbors.
Amy and Eliza came for lunch and of course Amy loves the egg plant as well as does most of her kids especially Ava. Tyler is not a fan so she never prepares it at home. After they left I jumped in the shower as I knew it would be late when we got back from Tampa plus I had been working and playing hard during the morning. We headed out a little before 4 to make the 6 PM program and the traffic on the toll road was stop and go and bumper to bumper, Yikes when with this ever clear out and the rain made it worst with several accidents on the side of the roads.
Annsley received several awards for her writing and math accomplishments and the most coveted Principal's Award as having straight A's all year long. There were a few students in each of the grades achieving that award. She was brought up to the stage several times throughout the ceremony. Not only is she going to be a beauty but a smart one as well. We headed over to a local eatery for some supper with Bobby and Katie before heading back across the bridge. Thankfully the traffic had thinned out and we made it in the usual traveling time. I noticed gas prices had gone to almost 3 bucks a gallon in just a little over a week. Well its summer driving time with school out and this always happens this time of the year but still with US(A) now and oil exporting nation the prices should be lower.
We tuned into the FOX CABLE NEWS on Sirius radio on the way home and then again on TV and the dem's and lib's are in big trouble with the corruption of the deep state being exposed and Hillary may yet be in trouble and hopefully charged for her collusion and being complicit in spying on the Trump party and trying to ruin him after he beat her in the election. We are learning just how corrupt she and Obama where in politics and in trying to destroy our duly elected POTUS TRUMP. The corruption at the top of the DOJ, FBI and CIA is frightening as it subverts the constitution and the equal justice laws. We never would have know any of this corruption if she had won. I believe it was GOD sparing the nation and which caused many of Americans who had never voted before to make sure she never got the votes. Thank You GOD, LATER
