Well Wednesday saw us with another typical Florida summer day after another rain shower during the night. I'm not watering the yards at all with the almost daily rain and the gardens just once a day. There wasn't much happening except for the usual routines except for the sports on TV and the Ray's blew out the White Sox in their stadium 9-1. It was cold there enough to see the players breath. The Lightning went down in defeat after being up 3-0 in the first period and lost 4-3, yikes. That's almost unheard of especially against the best team record in the NHL.
I started the day much the usual with a before 6 roll out to my cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric and fresh ginger while I posted this ramble then spent some quiet moments with my Creator. All of those I lift up daily seem to be doing well. I got ready and headed out to the rec. on my bike a little before 8 for two hours of pickle ball play. We are slowly losing many of the snowbirds which are heading back to Canada and the northern states. It's been a jam packed gym many days with players and we still have a few good ones left to play for another week or so. We will have at least four of the A players for a couple weeks until I leave in June for the mountains as well and by then school will be out and the summer camps will take over the gym except for a couple time slots during the week for pickle ball, oh well its been a great year for play.
Amy and Eliza came for a lunch which GG loved to make and we dedicated the bacon, egg and onion sandwich lunch to her and with my fresh tomato's it was even more delicious. I had two of the sandwiches which held me the rest of the day as we didn't eat until 1 PM when Amy got to the house. I did have a few cashews along with my glass of vino around 6 but that was it for me for the day after an apple for breakfast. I'm holding between 180 and 183 which is awesome. I would like the lower number which I hit occasionally but at least its been steadily below 185. That is down from the 196 I hit after getting back from the mountains in November.
I piddled around in the garden after pickle ball, hung a load of laundry outside on the clothesline and pulled weeds in the garden and found several more tomato's either a squirrel or rat ate into; I've thrown away dozens now of chewed fruit. Today I'm heading out to Sam's with a stop at Home Depot for some rat poison. I figure what the heck. I have another row of tomato's on the other side of the garden which has tons of green fruit and I want to stop them before they locate this patch. I have chicken wire along the top of these plans to help keep the squirrels from jumping off the fence onto the plants; breaking the limbs and then chewing the stems off. I've never in all my life seen this happening before this year, oh well.
The collards, kale and cukes are still producing but the sweet sugar peas and green beans have dried up despite the daily watering as has the lettuces. The jalapeno peppers are going crazy with new fruit and tons of flowers. I sowed a couple seeds in hope they will give me some seedlings for the summer garden and I have tons of volunteer tomato seedlings as well to take with me. It was a hot afternoon so after lunch I tuned into the Ray's game in Chicago where they had rain and some sleet. It was in the 30's there but after the rain delay they played the game and the Ray's swept another series. They are on fire and playing like world beaters. Let's hope they continue with great hitting and fantastic pitching from little known players.
The Stanley Cup playoffs started in Tampa and with three goals in the first period it looked like a definite win for the Lightning but the next two periods they looked like a minor league team and lost the game to a team they had beaten every time this year. I remember the saying"on any given day any team can win or lose" and this was their day to lose after thinking the game was in the bag, oh well. Nancy was at her Bible Study class and got back going on 9'ish. I was watching some of the FOX Cable news in between commercials and the new AG Barr has the dem's in a tizzy with his announcements there was evidence of spying on Trump by the dem's. He said he was going to go back to 2016 and start over with a through investigation so just maybe Hillary will get her just dues as well as those in the "deep state" of the obama administration. The talking points in the biased fake news networks are besides themselves with commentary on how this AG is in bed with Trump. Just like before they thought Mueller would give them their cause against Trump and they turned on Mueller and now this highly respected former AG who took on this new job is bad according to the dem's and liberal media. I love watching their heads explode and I'm hoping they will receive some investigation for their fake news and being complicit with the dems. Oh well we will see, LATER
