Well Friday was another beautiful day with plenty of sunshine and it did get rather warm in the early afternoon, the a/c is still on as the humidity is hanging around. There is a cold front coming through sometime this weekend and the temps next week are supposed to be in the 60's for highs or there about's. It was a great day for working outside and I did that all day except for an hour or so reading outside under the shade of the big oak.
I started the day much the usual with a before 6 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 and Lord lifting up several for comfort, healing and even a miracle in a couple cases. All are about the same as I've heard nothing to the contrary. Since there was no pickle ball as the Rec. was closed for the holiday I headed outside with my morning breakfast, an apple as I surveyed the new transplanted seedlings and they all seemed to be just fine. I decided to remove the small fence around the area I had closed off from the squirrels when we first got home where I had sowed seeds. I now wanted to transplant some of those bedding lettuces in to rows as most had at least two leaves. That kept me busy until lunch time.
After a cold turkey roll up and a piece of pumpkin pie I headed out to put the outside Christmas lights up on the front of the house. I needed to trim some of the Confederate Jasmine as well as some of front bushes before laying the many strands of red and white lights across the front of the house. That kept me occupied for a couple hours and by then the heat was stiffing in the direct sunshine. These are times when I miss the big oak in the front yard as now there is no shade whatsoever, oh well. I headed into the back yard with a new read for an hour or so until the sun started sinking into the western sky.
I hand water the gardens a couple times a day especially the new seedlings and they are starting to add new leaves almost over night. Thus far the squirrels haven't been so destructive as they don't come into the yards when I'm out and about. I now have collards ready to harvest and we are planning on a mess next week. The leafy greens are thriving and I've blessing our neighbors with plenty. I spent the next couple hours on my knees pulling this wire like grass which somehow infiltrated my yards and it spreads so rapidly. I have no idea where it came from but slowly but surely I'm removing as much as my knees and back can stand daily by pulling it out. I'm hoping with fertilizer and water the grass with smother it out. I notice my crepe myrtle tree has a bloom on one limb. I find that most unusual this time of the year but it reaffirms the tree is alive. Daily waterings have helped to revive it since we've been home.
I grilled a couple ribeye steaks, medium rare we brought home with us from the cabin and along with some leftover tater cakes and a garden salad we ate "high on the hog" as the old country saying goes. We still have some delicious turkey from the night before which make great lunches for the next couple of days. After the clean up I settled into the Lightning game and they let the Caps come back from 3-1 down to win 4-3 in overtime. The Lightning seem to be playing in a funk this year as they traded some really good players during the off season, Oh well. In college football the local USF team was getting beat by the UCF rather handily when I shut the lights off around 10'ish, LATER
