Well Thursday was a cold one to start the day with frost on the neighbors roof tops. My garden did not suffer any of the effects as the trees kept the ice away and I'm not sure how and why but it's done that a couple other times this winter. It gradually warmed to the low 70's by late evening and then after sunset the temps dropped again as we were at Gabe's ball game in Brandon until 8:30 before heading home.
I started the day much the usual except for sleeping in under the warm covers for an extra half hour so it was around 6:30 when I slipped out leaving Nancy in bed. I had my cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric and ginger while I posted this ramble then lifted up several by name to my Creator after giving thanks for my blessings. All seem well as can be expected. We didn't do much during the morning except stay in and keep warm and doing our morning routines. Since the rec. is closed I've missed the daily morning exercise so we took a nice long hike through the hood for a couple miles just before lunch. It had warmed up to where short sleeves were inviting but I knew if we headed out later in shorts we would be cold when darkness fell.
After a light lunch we caught up on some small chores as I hand watered the gardens and picked a couple more tomato's which were starting to turn. I did find one the bugs had entered the bottom and caused it to rot but those have been few this year for whatever reason. This is best year for harvesting large beautiful tomato's and the vines are loaded with all various sizes. We headed out around 2:30 which made such a difference from last weeks fiasco of over two hours to go 50 miles while today took us just over an hour. We made a stop at Publix in Brandon for some items for our supper which we ate around 5'ish with Bobby, Katie and Gabe. Annsley was off to gymnastics for two hours and she would eat later. She did snack before her class.
The game was great and we led for a couple innings but some errors on over throws gave the victory in the last inning by one run at 15-14. Gabe made some good hits but the other team was better fielders in the end and so it was their second loss thus far, LATER
