Well Thursday turned out to be another busy day that started with my 6'ish roll out to my usual morning routines. My cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble then spent some quiet time with my Creator and Lord while I gave thanks for my blessings and lifted up some who were less fortunate and need some comfort and healings. So far all seem as well as can be expected. It seems we now have a crisis on our hands with this virus with many becoming infected so back on our knees we need to go. My generation and upwards in age with health issues seem to be the most exposed for long term and even death from this insidious disease.
I headed out a little after 8 to the Rec. despite it being closed to the outside court for 2 plus hours of pickle ball with 3 other players. It was just a gorgeous morning with warm temps and bright sunshine. It didn't hot until after lunch and even then the humidity stayed away. I came back and hand watered the gardens and picked enough collards greens for three families and stored them in the fridge until I headed out for my dental cleaning at 12:30. Our old neighbor Laurie did the cleaning and I knew she and her family loved collards so I surprised her with a nice mess. She was thrilled and we caught up on all thats going on with her, Jim and daughter Kayla who is now and LEO with the sheriff's dept. Jim is a fireman and they were great next door neighbors for years before selling out to Bobby another fireman.
I made an Aldi's stop which is adjacent to the dental clinic and picked up some goodies before heading home for a lite lunch. I read for the next hour before heading out to my financial advisor to do some paper work, so I blessed his office staff with a sack of collard greens as well. They were thrilled and amazed at the size of the leaves. They are from Indiana and knew all about cooking collards but had never used chicken broth to cook them in; so I enlightened them with my recipe and they were thrilled to try this new way. The broth makes all the difference in flavor and taste for this super food which grows so well in my back yard garden.
We had sauteed fresh beet greens which we both love as much as collards and so much quicker and easier to cook. You use only a little water and heat them in a skillet until they become like spinach whereas you must cook the collards for a couple hours; both are so good for you and are considered super foods along with kale and Swiss chard. I did notice some small cukes setting on the vines so hopefully these will make. I have them in an area thats get morning and afternoon sun so maybe that was the reason the last vines died. I have pole beans sending out runners so maybe we will get a harvest and the potato plants which came up from peelings are doing great as well.
The lettuces are heading up and I was hoping they would mature in time for our life groups progressive dinner next week and they have, but now with this virus causing the cancellations of church meetings for the next two weeks as well as small groups with folks over 65 and I'm in that age bracket we have postponed until April, oh well. We were scheduled to have the salad part of the dinner here at our house. I'm hoping the heat and humidity holds off until then which usually destroys lettuces and the leafy greens in the high heat. Such is life but now I have tons of salad stuff to give away to neighbors.
Well that was about it for the day. We got word we will not be spending two nights next week with Katie and the boys as Bobby's flights have been cancelled due to the virus; so we will see what happens with this fiasco and how it effects all of US(A). The dems are making it a political issue blaming Trump but in all actuality his decisions to stop travel from the infected countries right away is a blessing and especially on the border with the wall. I certainly hope the bias congress in the house does the right thing for the nation and puts aside their partisan actions in their attempt to destroy this potus. On a lighter note I'm now reading a really good and funny author, Janet Evanovich. She is a hoot and brings to life a bounty hunter by the name of Stephanie Plum attempts to capture FTA's(failure to appear) in an around Trenton, N.J. Fun reading and a page turner with her antics which seem very real life like, LATER
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