Well can you believe this month is nearly gone and we are getting much closer to heading back to the cabin in about 4 months; hopefully around the end of May or the first of June. Wednesday saw us once again with rather moderate temps, lots of humidity and eventually some much needed rain fall throughout the late afternoon and evening. The garden loves these temps and of course the rain.
I started Wednesday much the usual with a before 6 roll out to my cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric. I'm still nursing this muscle pull in the scapula area(shoulder blade) of the back. I'm taking some Aleive and using ice packs through the afternoon which seems to help. I'm still playing a couple hours of pickle ball which I probably shouldn't because its my right shoulder but I've had this happen before over the years and I'll work through it; its just annoying and a dull ache.
I did my usual routines of a few quiet moments to give thanks to my Creator and Lord as well as lift up several. I lost and old trooper buddy who was 10 years younger to cancer and as I remember he was a big user of chewing tobacco. I'm not sure that it was the cause but it was one of the reasons I quit many moons ago. Everyone else is holding their own as far as I can tell. I got in two good hours of pickle ball play outside with 4 other guys. We are evenly matched had left around 10 with a wet shirt and worn out bodies. I'm the oldest guy there but so far I can hold my own with a couple of the younger fellows.
I got back to the house and piddled around in the garden. The lettuces are really looking good and I should start harvesting in a couple days to add to the salad bowl. The new cucumber vines are sending out runners and should start climbing the chicken wire I nailed to the back fence. The sugar peas are exploding with fruit and blossoms. I'm getting ready to resow some radish seeds as soon as the moon goes to dark. Everything is looking good even the new pepper plants are loaded with blossoms and fruit. The recently transplanted beet seedlings are going to make except for a couple real small seedlings that the neighborhood cats like to walk on during the night.
We had our big meal at lunch time due to Nancy's Bible class in the evening and that was one of Marie Callanders chicken pot pies which is awesome in flavor along with a fresh garden salad. I did clean my grill out as it wasn't functioning proper the other night when I attempted to grill steaks which I eventually did but not to perfection, oh well the food was delicious despite no grill marks which I love to put on the meat from a hot grill.
Well I started a new read by Lee Child titled BLUE MOON. I did about half of it on this rainy afternoon and evening. He is a good writer and Jack reacher is a hero of mine at least in his vagabond sort of existence. I tuned into the FOX CABLE news channel and caught up on what the socialist dems are trying to do to our nation. It's laughable at the idiots they are putting up as candidates to lead this nation into destruction and then supporting outright communists dictators like Castro who has destroyed Cuba. The msm is complicit with them as well and are truly enemies of this country, oh well, LATER
