I started the day with a sleep in until 6:30 which is becoming more usual than unusual due to staying up closer to 10:30 than 10. We haven't resumed the series called "TURN" which we must do as its that good and which usually keeps me up past 10 as well. I've been watching the Rays who are playing later due to being in Texas which is an hour behind so their games get over later but I'm not sure I want to watch as they have been getting whupped except for yesterday, oh well. We ate healthy or lite for breakfast and really for the most part all day as we have been trying to cut down on carbs and mainly sugar.
I did my usual morning routines with the cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric while I post this ramble and then spent some time with my Creator in thanksgiving and lifting up several. Now we are adding all of Florida who is in the path of the hurricane coming this weekend; lets hope it is hit with some wind shear and downgraded to a tropical storm which is almost like a daily occurrence for the state but at this times the forecasters are predicting a big one. Our kids and grands are in central Florida along with our home which seems to be in the path of one of the models of where this storm could travel and they usually do occur on the Labor Day weekend as I've been involved in several while on patrol over years past. Many days off where cancelled as well as working double shifts back in the day and one year the storm stayed off the coast for days bringing damage and torrential rain.
I worked out in the gardens pulling weeds and grasses from the flower beds before painting the new renovations to the outhouse/toolshed. I did notice where I had caulked the cracks with silicone the water base paint would not stick. So I let it dry then took a can of red oil base spray paint and gave it a coat which did adhere. I'll go back today and paint over that with the red paint of the shed and cause it to blend in. I had sowed some lettuce seeds and many came up so I transplanted a couple dozen into individual pots and will set them in the garden when they get 4-5 leaves. I squashed more green worms on my collards plants and I'm thinking maybe I should use some Sevin dust. I try not to use insecticides if possible but they have the leaves looking like Swiss cheese.
I noticed when I awakened that a deer was leaving the back gardens after eating my new Blackeyed Susan plants as well as most of the new leaves on the black raspberry bushes. They left everything in the garden alone which I'm surprised. I harvested another couple cucumbers and I must say these are the sweetest cukes ever and I just wash them off and eat the skin and all they are that tasty with just a little salt. I did notice my first cherry style tomato is starting to turn towards being ripe. The large tomato's in the upper garden aren't showing any signs yet but there are a dozen or so on the 3 plants. The okra is at a stand still for some reason with no blooms or any height in the plants. I did pick a nice bowl of blue berries from the two bushes which finally are producing some fruit. One of the bushes must have a couple hundred berries all in various stages of ripening so I'm getting a handful almost everyday for my breakfast and for snacking. They are very tasty and so good for you.
We took off just before supper to a neighbors cabin to take a photo of his wood burning stove in his basement for him as they are in Ohio and he is changing home owners insurance and needed a picture of this stove, Nancy texted it to him and them we headed to the mailbox before heading back to the cabin where I fried up some delicious catfish fillets. Wow, were they ever so good and they come from huge channel cats from a lake in South Carolina. No fishy smell or taste and the meat is pure white and they were given to us from a friend who caught the cats and processed the meat. We decided to have a campfire on this evening as the temps were starting to drop down into the low 70's high 60's. I got a nice fire going using up some sticks that fall from the trees almost daily in the backwoods yard as well as using some "liter knot" which is petrified pine. We had a nice blaze and then just before heading in I burned the trash which saves me a trip to the landfill except for the cans and bottles which I do drop off weekly.
Well that was about it for this awesome weather day here at the cabin and its supposed to be a replica again for today Friday and through the weekend depending on when and where that storm goes heading towards Florida, LATER
