Well Saturday was another warm and humid day with lots of clouds and by night fall some much needed rain which lasted well beyond when I called it a day. It was a fun day with supper with all the grands (except the new boys) at Amy and Tyler's house around 5'ish.
I started the morning with my typical roll out around 6 to my cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric and fresh ginger while I posted this ramble then spent some quiet time with my Creator and Lord lifting up several by name and giving thanks for my many blessings. All seem as well as can be expected at this point in time. We spoke with our "mountain mom" Helen for a spell and she sounded great after a bout with the flu. Her son Rick was up for a week from Florida and they had a great time together over Christmas visiting family and celebrating the holidays together. He lived not too far from us near the beach area and left yesterday morning from her place.
Myself and 5 others played outside after the gym filled up with B players and got in a good workout on the outside pickle ball court. It's a totally different style of game as the ball bounced differently and then you have the wind and sun to contend with. We can at least see as the gym now has 5 over head lights out and its so dark inside. The management is closing the gym on one of our play days to fix the lights after we have been complaining for months about the lights not working. This Rec. is poorly managed with the director being less than friendly towards us players for some reason. We have to set up the nets everyday and when we visited other facilities they set up the courts and take them down, oh well. I guess we are lucky to have a place to play which they think they are responsible for allowing us to play there.
I did some garden work after pickle ball feeding and hoeing the weeds which seem to grow overnight and noticed I now have several cucumber blooms which is a first. I haven't been able to grow cukes here in years for some reason but these vines look great and maybe that because I'm using a different location and some bone meal. I've had to cut some of the tomato plants back as they are over 6 feet tall and sending out branches loaded with blooms. Hopefully by cutting them back that will send the energy into the blooms already on the lower stems and give the fruit already set some growth. The egg plants have several blooms and buds but my jalapeno pepper all of a sudden lost all its blooms and buds. The plant still looks great but with no blooms. I'm not sure what has happened. Usually the nematodes don't bother the peppers but maybe thats what has happened. I transplanted several marigolds around all of the tomato plants as they are a natural deterrent to these nutrient sucking microscopic worms that form knots on the roots of the plants.
After a late lunch I headed in to read for a couple hours as Nancy was off shopping as she prepares for a gala dinner on New Years Day of sauerkraut and pork, black eyed peas, smashed taters, etc. We will probably feed the same gang we fed for Christmas dinner plus Bobby and the grands as Katie will stay with the "boys" plus she is not a fan of our dinner on this special day, oh well. We headed over to Amy's and had a fun time with the grands and some tasty brats on the grill. We headed out for home around 7:30 and it was time to hit the shower for me and then some college football. LSU whupped Oklahoma big time to go to the championship game and Ohio was ahead by two when I shut the lights out, LATER
