I started the day much the usual with a 6'ish roll out to my cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble then spent some quiet moments with my Creator in thanksgiving and then lifting up several by name. All seem as well as can be expected due to their ages and health issues at this point in time. I headed out after checking on the world news and social media to hand water the gardens and harvest cucumbers. I pulled 7 that had matured overnight but did squash a number of little green worms that have infested the vines, so far the vines are still looking good and the worms are only on the leaves at this time. I'm going to hold off on the Sevin dust for now. I'm going to have a dozen or so lettuce seedlings to transplant in the next day or so despite the hot days. A few seeds came up and have now put on an extra leaf so we might get another mess or two of fresh lettuces. I still have a few heads of romaine left to harvest.
I did harvest two messes of collards yesterday for a church friend who came by and stayed in their car and then again last evening another large mess for the firemen here in Seminole. Bobby our fireman neighbor cooks them for the crew at his station. I transplanted more marigolds along the fence line that either the squirrels or neighborhood cats dug up over night. I'm getting lots of small egg plants on the two plants that are now over 6 feet tall, wow are they ever healthy looking and still setting fruit. We fried up a couple green tomato's for our supper and they were delicious to say the least. I still have one large tomato plant that is producing a few green slicing size fruit but not many. The volunteer plants are setting fruit as well but they will be the cherry size.
I decided to mow the yards and bagged the clippings so my worms along with the many sacks of oak leaves should have plenty of material to digest this summer and turn them into compost and plant food for next years gardens. The pole beans are full of blooms and I'm picking a few as well. I'm about to harvest the last of the radishes and as soon as we get the dark of the moon I may resow them again as they did so well with this last sowing. After supper we took our usual 3-4 mile ride through the hood and got in some exercise. We will leave this morning(Fri) and head to Brandon for the day and evening with Bobby's family. He will make supper and then I'm sure the kiddo will want another board game before we leave.
That was about it for the day as I'm having Tyler help me install the new over the stove microwave on Saturday. We will have the Ross Family for an Easter dinner on Sunday as Bobby's Family will stay away due to the quarantine for the boys who are still so small. Amy is still working at Keswick School daily so she maybe subjected to the virus from her kids she watches but its highly unlikeable, but still we are taking precautions. I think the MSM has blown this completely out of proportion to make our Potus look bad but that is a subject for another day, LATER
