Well the big news; no church services today and no group meetings affiliated with the church for the next 2 weeks over this Corona scare.
Saturday started out being a rather mundane morning since there was no pickle ball. I rolled out about my usual time, before 6 which saw the outside totally black and the temps were rather warm in the upper 60's. It's looking more like early summer with the temps in the 80's and humidity is ever present; its not intolerable yet but getting close which makes me yearn for the cool mornings at the cabin, oh well. I did my routines that start with the hot green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble and spent some time with my Creator giving thanks and lifting up several by name. All seem as well as can be expected. I'm worried a couple of these are advanced in age and Eddie is in a nursing home already in such poor health that if they get infected it could be there demise. I did speak with Paw Paw around lunch time and he actually sounded good but he has no short term memory left as I mentioned we were helping with the twins and he acted as if that was a new thing, the twins, oh well at 92 that comes with the territory.
Nancy made a nice mountain style breakfast which held me until supper time; fried eggs, sausage patties and pancakes with a ripe banana in the batter, yeow. I did the cleanup afterwards and headed out to piddle around in the garden. We had a close friend and church lady come by for some leafy greens and she was thrilled. We loaded her up with a sack full and then I gave the neighbor behind us a mess of collards later in the afternoon. I think I'll cooked up a mess for today's supper since we have the morning free after listening to the BridgePoint service on line. All of the campus's are cancelled but the service will be simulcast on line from the main campus in St.Pete/Tyrone area with no audience.
I pulled weeds from the yards and started a bunch of St.Augustine grass clippings in one section of the garden that is lying fallow. It's starting to get too hot to plant anything this time of the year. I did find a beautiful ripe tomato hiding among the tomato plants and did notice several more green ones. The plants are huge as it the egg plants but the production of fruit has been anything but great in relation to the size of the plants. The earthworms are multiplying and turning the garden into great plant foods. I sure miss the oak leaves from the front yard tree. I'll have to look for some of them bagged alongside the curb and turn them into mulch for the worms when we leave in June.
Well I'm about 3/4 through a new read by Janet Evanovich novel titled THREE PLUMS IN ONE and it is a hoot with close to 800 pages. The character is a small town bounty hunter and it goes into the family life of those who live in this burg outside Trenton, N.J. It's funny, shocking, serious and sad at times and down to earth about life in this era and area of the country. A real page turner and I find myself laughing out loud to the grandma's sayings and actions at times. Definitely a must read.
Well since there was no sports on TV I read for the biggest part of the afternoon and evening until bedtime. Nancy made us deer taco meat for supper which was "to die for" as aunt Betsy always proclaims. I had made a fresh garden salad and I put my meat on top of that and oh my what a delicious. dish with a jalapeno on top. Many thanks to mountain neighbor Gerald for the processed venison meat in pound packages he harvested off our property last year. DELICIOUS to say the least, LATER
