Well Sunday was an awesome day of worship at both on line at the Bridgepoint Church and then again at Cornerstone where we heard a message through a musical group called Summit Trace who gave a nearly 2 hour concert. Afterwards we met up with Mechelle and Caleb at the Pines Eatery for a delicious buffet that included some foods we seldom eat at home; fried chicken, pinto beans, mustard greens, smashed taters & gravy plus a salad bar, needless to say that held us until nearly 7'ish when we ate a sandwich. I spent the afternoon working as we had some catch up things to do since our guests left right before we headed out for Cornerstone.
I started the day much the usual then we heard the Tracy's up and about as they got ready to vacate the cabin for their northern trip to Nova Scotia for two weeks with a couple nights stops on the way. We so enjoyed their short visit but will see them again towards the end of the month when they return and then they will be having all of their family join them over the course of the summer and fall for visits. We will entertain them at times but they will rent a cabin about 12 miles from us and we will share some great fun times with them as they love to entertain as well.
The service at Bridgepoint on line was awesome as Pastor Tim delivers an awesome message his road trip series. We listened in its entirety then headed out for a real treat of christian music for the entire service at Cornerstone then had lunch at one of the favorite eateries in town. I stopped off at the Luffman Farm to borrow a 28 ft. aluminum ladder from Gerald so I could easily reach the peak of the cabin roof. I headed over to our "mountain moms" pond to weed whack the pond bank and area as the grand kiddos want to fish there this coming weekend. They always have such a grand time visiting and catching bass and blue gills and then if we are real lucky I filet them for the skillet. Such memories we make each year.
I decided since I had the big ladder and lots of day light hours that I would fill the bean sprayer with bleach and start spraying the black mildew that accumulates each year on the hemlock boards which gives the cabin the look similar to a log look. Well that job went so fast that I wound up doing the whole cabin in a couple hours except for the dormer which I will do later on Monday. We still had a couple hours of sunlight so we took off on a hike to the top now that Nancy's poison Ivy is starting to dry up and the itch has subsided some what. We had a grand hike together as this was the first in several days for us together. We got back rather quickly as we saw no one on the trail.
I still had an hour or so of sunlight so I hoed and weeded the gardens plus sprayed the plants with some epsom salts which all plants love especially tomato's and pepper. It's magnesium sulfate and the land has become deficient in this mineral. Anyhow I worked outside loosening the packed clay soil in the circle beds until dark and pulling some weeds. It was a perfect day for being outside and catching up on some work. I had use Saturday as a day of rest with our guests.
Well we hit the showers around 9'ish then got ready for some horizontal lab as I usually find the sand man calling around 10 and Nancy usually comes to bed some time afterwards. We got word our daughter Amy and Family made it safely to Kansas after a two trip by car, yikes that is a long time to be bottled up with three kiddos but they will enjoy two weeks with Tyler's family. Our son Bobby is coming this Thursday for a few days before they head down to Blowing Rock and spend a couple days with Katie's family, LATER
