Well Saturday was another just gorgeous day with chilly temps to start the day; a flannel long sleeve shirt for the morning until about noon then a denim shirt in the evening as the sunset. The stiff breeze through out the day kept the humidity away and when ever the clouds came out the temps dropped rapidly. It was a mixture of play and work for me.
Well today Sunday marks our second week on the mountain and the change in the yards and gardens is awesome as we have lots of new seedlings in the flower beds and gardens, much better than expected as I transplanted or moved lots of seedlings up into 6 packs for a week or so before setting them into the garden itself. I'm always thrilled at the way every think grows and matures here and since we changed out a couple old flower beds the new change is thrilling with what will bloom and add beauty to the place. There is always rocks to glean from the beds as well as weeds to pull which keeps you walking around and inspecting the almost daily new growth.
We had a nice semi mountain breakfast from our fruit and oatmeal daily start of the day to sausage and eggs, yeow which held me the rest of the day until we ate supper around 7:30 at the Mechelle's place with her family and her son in laws family whom Kallie is marrying. I did finish up the left over watermelon around 2'ish. We took a mid morning hike to the top of the mountain and we are getting our legs back to mountain hiking. We saw no one on top so it was across to the end at the old Browning place and then down the back road at a good clip. Nancy does great on the down slope but does struggle a little on the upwards climb. We piddled around in the yards and gardens and then worked over the Peonie flower bed which had tons of moss, weeds and grasses. I even managed to replant some of the grasses in the bare areas which had once been nothing but moss; but now with the trees gone, the sunlight is driving the moss away which was my intention for having Jake cut so many of them. I noticed several small Peonies within the bed. They are one of my favorite flowering plants but we seldom get to see them bloom, the exception was this year when we still had lots of blooms when we arrived. They do not like the heat and are much like the lilacs which we seldom if ever get to see them bloom or smell their delicious fragrance.
It was sit on the porch at times and cat nap and occasionally moved into the sunlight to warm up, yikes here it is the middle of June and we are having cool temps and this coming week the highs may reach the low 70's which is perfect from the hot humid Florida weather. We stopped on our way over to Mechelle's for a visit with our mountain mom, Helen and blessed her with a piece of Nancy's flowerless chocolate cake. I must say it is delicious but we are trying to limit ourselves on carbs and sugars and I'm glad she gave the last of it away.
At Mechelle's we had burgers and Nancy's baked beans with some chips on the side and Kay made a strawberry cake which I had just a sliver. It too was very good. Mechelle and Gerald were in the hayfield and didn't get in until late so we cancelled on any game playing for this evening besides Juan family was there and that made for too many to play. We got back to the cabin just as darkness set in and it was a hot shower for me and then some FB time before calling it a day at 10'ish. Today we will attend Cornerstone and then go from there on if any diners are open for eating in which we will probably do with all of them, LATER
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