Well did we ever get a gully washer last evening and the rain was much needed and appreciated. Maybe its the start of the rainy season here in central Florida which usually occurs around the 4 o'clock hour and this one was right on. There wasn't much to write about except for some pickle ball in the morning with a slim few players and then I piddled around in the gardens until Amy and Eliza came for a lunch.
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 lifted up several to my Creator during my quiet time. All seem well and we did speak with our "mountain mom" after supper. Spring or summer has come to the mountains but with April showers weekly. They are sick of so much rain this winter but everything is greening up and the weather has turned warm. We are getting excited about the transformation of "flat landers" to "mountain folks" in just about 23 days.
I harvested a beautiful egg plant and a large green tomato for our lunch with Amy and Eliza. Wow what a treat as both of them are delicious when fried in bread crumbs and olive oil then left to cool on a paper towel sprinkled with a little ground red pepper, fresh jalapeno pepper slices(for me)and some ranch dressing and fresh basil and parsley and or cilantro when available. My cilantro has gone to seed which becomes coriander. I saved the dried seeds and will sow them for them summer garden as we love cilantro in all of our Mexican style dishes as well as guacamole.
I spent the afternoon reading and finished a James Patterson non- fiction read. I checked the catalog for both libraries and he is loaded with reads so I should have a good inventory this summer in the mountains with Patterson and Burke as well as when I come back during the winter. We had a couple loads of laundry on the line and it dried quickly as the heat was almost unbearable to work outside which brought up the black clouds and then the thunder and lightning and the down pour started with gusty winds. I didn't have to water after supper for a change. The sun came out and you would never know it was a cloud burst just and hour before. Such as it is in this sandy soil called Florida.
Well we tuned into the Ray's game after supper against the Yank's and while we should have won the game with bases loaded a couple times we could not score. It was a close game 4-3 and the stands were filled always when the Yank's come to town. We did watch the Fox Cable news in between innings and our duly elected Potus Trump told the Chinese to stick it with their unfavorable trade talks. I love a strong potus who is looking out for America first and the AG Barr said the same to the dem's in the congress. They are on notice that an investigation of their corruption in the attempted coup is happening and they are scrambling with any an all efforts to derail this Trump train using the fake news networks as their point. The news reporters on CNN and MSNBC are pathetic with their attempt to sway American's who no longer are listening to their lies and pablum, personally I've never liked either of those networks since they lied for the Clinton's and have become so liberal in their thinking. There are a few on the Fox network who needs to leave and go to these two biased shows but I get enough of their thinking to know what goes on in the msm, LATER
