Friday Morning

Well it was another chilly morning to start the day and Nancy had the heat on which did feel nice until around lunchtime when it warmed up to be a very nice afternoon. We shut the heat off and opened the windows and doors for the rest of the afternoon until we left around 4 for Ava's game. It cooled off again during night but not quite as cold as the night before. I see where our mountain family is going through some rough winter weather with snow, ice and very cold temps.

I started the day much the usual with a 6'ish roll out to my cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric and ginger root while I posted this ramble then spent some quiet time with my Creator in thanksgiving and lifting up several by name. All seem as well as can be expected for their ages and conditions as I've heard nothing to the contrary. I did my morning routines then headed out a little later as it was one of the morning we pickle ball players have an extra two hours in the gym with better players although lately a few of the B players have been staying longer and getting in our matches which doesn't make some of us happy, oh well.

I got back to the house around 11:30 and piddled around in the garden hand watering before we had lunch. It had really warmed up to short sleeve temps so I headed out to transplant some bibb lettuce seedlings into the ground as well as tie up some of my tomato plants. I have several new tomato's set and some are large enough to fry. We love fried green tomato's. I harvested some lettuce, kale and beet greens for our salad bowl which we try to keep filled for daily use and now the collards and Swiss chard are ready for harvesting.

I cut up the old desk and put it in garbage cans and got it out to the curb for the pickup today. I'm still waiting on the replacement parts so I can finish the new desk and reorganize that room. Nancy took off for her hike through the hood while I worked the garden and the front yard until it was time to head over to Indian Rocks School for Ava's 4:30 game. Well it was a close game and they were down 6 points with just two minutes to go and they managed to score 8 points in a row and won the game by 2 points. Wow what a finish and today they play again at 4 in St.Petersburg.

We came back and had grilled salmon fillets, cauliflower and sauteed peppers and pea pods , yeow what a delicious supper. I'm still holding at around 185 and these last 5 pounds are so hard to lose but 180 is my goal as I achieved it last year before heading out in June to the cabin, LATER