Well Wednesday was a beach day after a some what cool morning, in the 50's but soon warmed up to the low 80;s by the afternoon. It was almost a/c time but the breeze kept the humidity down. I played pickle ball, worked in the garden and finished putting this desk together as we got the two parts delivered via FedEx.
I started the day much the usual with a 6'ish rollout to my cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric and ginger while I posted this ramble and then spent some time lifting several up by name to my Creator for comfort and healing. All seem well except we did speak briefly with Paw Paw and his care giver Pat and she mentioned he had spent a couple days at the VA hospital but was back home with her in W.Va. Everyone else seems to be doing as well as can be expected considering their ages and health issues.
I headed out to the rec. on my bike for a couple hours of good play and then stopped off at the library for a couple new reads by Dennis Lehane who has now struck my interest with his historical novels especially the one relating to the mafia in Ybor City which is in Tampa, Fl. We decided to have collards and pork ribs for supper so I cut a nice mess from one plant that needed harvesting, rinsed them and chopped them up for the pot while Nancy got the fixin's ready to add to the pot for the all day simmer. Yeow, what a feed and I added a fresh jalapeno pepper from the garden to my bowl. They were so good and I have enough leftover for a large bowl for lunch today. I did tie up several of my tomato plants that have exploded with little green ones. I ended up with about 12 or 13 plants some of which are further along than others that should supply us and our family and friends with fruit for a long time.
I cut more lettuce for another neighbor as I have a couple dozen lettuce seedlings up which will need to be potted up into 6 packs until they are big enough for the ground. It's been a banner year for everything even the cucumbers as they are blooming and climbing the fence I made for them. After lunch we headed in to finished the last directions of putting this new desk together. We had the old one since the kids were still at home and while it worked for me it did not fit the decor for Nancy. We also cleaned out, separated and then threw away stuff we had been hoarding for some unknown reason over the years.
Afterwards I headed out to hand water the gardens, pull a few weeds and piddle around out front in the yard where the grass is finally starting to fill in around the tree which had died over the summer. Its taken a lot of work but the new grass is so much better than the old one I put in last fall and it doesn't get cinch bugs or fungus so it should hold the green all summer. I grilled bone in ribs and they were great with the collards, yeow what a feed and I have 5 more plants that will need harvesting in a few days.
The forecast is for below normal temps for this next week starting today after a front moves through the area and I awakened this am to rain and cloudy skies after a beach day yesterday. I sure hope the temps don't get to freezing especially with the garden producing, LATER
