Well this month is just flying by and yesterday was no exception. It was a bit hot in the afternoon but the morning and evenings are just absolutely beautiful with a nice cool morning and no humidity. I got a lot of yard and garden work done around the cabin and Nancy had laundry hanging on the clothesline.
The day started much the usual with a 6'ish roll out to my cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble and then spent some quiet time with my Creator lifting up several by name and then giving thanks for another day in this beautiful part of His creation. I just pinch myself when I think I have this place to use and share with so many and I'm the groundskeeper to make it beautiful and unique for us and others. Sure I pay the taxes and insurance and all the renovations and hopefully some day our grand kids will love this place as much as we do and share it with friends as well.
Nancy slept in until 8'ish as she was still recuperating from the hay baling experience on Saturday, so I headed outside to finish weeding a couple flower beds while she had her coffee and did her morning devotions. Around 10 'ish we had a large mountain breakfast of bacon, eggs and grits which held me until supper time around 6'ish when we fried up several yellow squash and made that our supper, yeow that is some fine eatin' and I doctored mine up with fresh cilantro, oregano and basil from the garden along with a banana pepper brought back from Mike's garden. This staying away from the carbs hopefully will pay off with some reduction in the spare tire.
I fired up the riding mower after breakfast and mowed until nearly 1 o'clock. We both love the smell of fresh mowed grass and the yards look so beautiful as well. I have one more flower bed to weed and then I'm through for this summer as I will weed whack them all down when we leave in October. It's been a great year for weeds after the deer ate most all of the flowers last winter giving the weeds plenty of room to take over. I now have lots of small cone flowers trying a come back but the weeds and grasses was smothering and hindering their growth; hopefully they will get large enough to shade the weeds out. The black raspberries are sending out runners for next years crop so I fixed a couple poles for them to hang on as they are doing better than expected. I'll cut them back before leaving in October once the new runners have set roots and then I'll fence them in to keep the deer from eating all of the new growth next Spring.
We heard a couple chain saws in the back woods and it seems the neighbor on top had most of the tall pine trees cut down for a view and they just left some really nice white pine timber laying on the ground. It's too bad to see these beautiful trees just left to rot away. When we cut timber when I was but a teenager I used mules to drag the logs out to a road where we load them onto a truck but no one using them anymore. Now a days they use these heavy tractors which of course needs a road to maneuver which destroys the landscape to remove any logs. I like the old days as you saved the other small trees from being destroyed, oh well. It's not my property or timber but I hate to see such waste of good timber that could be used for lumber.
We took a 7'ish hike to the top of the mountain and spoke with Billy for a few who informed us of the tree cutting operation by the land owner next door to him. We did see one other vehicle at a residence but the mountain top was basically deserted after so many was there on the weekend. The evening was perfect for hiking and being outside after a rather hot afternoon. We took a late evening ride out to the mailbox before retiring inside for the night. The Ray's were being blasted by the Mariners 9-3 and the Little League game was another blow out as well with 10-0 by Louisiana over Minnesota, oh well. I hit the showers and was soon in the horizontal lab position around 10:30, LATER
