Tuesday Morning

Well Monday saw us with tons of humidity which is typical along with high heat and some very strong winds through out the day. The evening clouded up with what looked like tornado weather but thankfully none appeared but we did get some light rain and then again this morning its raining.

I started the day much the usual with a before 6'ish roll out to my usual cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric and fresh ginger while I posted this ramble then spent some quiet time with my Creator lifting up several by name. All of them seem well at this point in time. We did speak with our mountain mom Helen after supper and the weather has finally broke in the mountains with temps up into the 70's. The leaves are springing out as well as the flowering trees and the grass is greening after such a long cold wet winter.

I headed out a little before 8 on my bike for the rec. for two solid hours of pickle ball play and left whupped. After leaving the rec.I harvested a nice mess of collards and cleaned them and got them to cooking before heading out to hand water the gardens. The blasted squirrels continue to ruin tomato's and now maybe I'm thinking a fruit rat may also be a culprit which eats just enough to ruin the fruit before moving on to another one. Several of the tomato's were eaten deep into the fruit so I'm think a squirrel would have a hard time eating that deep, anyhow some critter is taking it toll on my tomato's both plants and fruit.

The collards smelled so good throughout the day and I had bought some fresh corn in the shuck and long with a grilled sirloin we feasted for supper, wow what a feed. I chopped a fresh jalapeno in my bowl of collards and does that ever enhance the flavors. I did turn on the TV during the day which is quite unusual as the Ray's were playing a day game in Chicago and they won 5-1. They are winners in their last 8 out of 10 games and lead the division for a change. We watched the Fox Cable news after the cleanup from supper until the national college basketball game came on at 9. I watched the first half before turning the lights out as I was dozing during commercials. 10 PM has become my bedtime and before 6 AM I'm wide awake, oh well. Virginia was winning at half time and I'll have to check the scores later on who won the bragging rights, LATER