Well Friday started out wet and then it turned absolutely beautiful by late afternoon and evening. We were still catching up on chores from the past week when we spent so much time with our guests whom we had such a great time with. It sure was quiet around the cabin and we got word they are back safely at home in Seminole. What a great time we had and they love this area which is not hard to understand and are looking at property to buy for their motor coach if the grand kiddos agree they would like to spend some summers in the mountains.
I started the day with a 6'ish roll out to my usual routines that start with the cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble then spent some time with my Creator and Lord in thanksgiving and lifting several up by name for comfort and healing. All seem as well as can be expected. I headed out to piddle around in the driveway moving a few piles of the loose gravel Gerald and I had delivered on the driveway a couple weeks. The gravel was so loose I couldn't get traction coming up the steep driveway at times. I had a couple large piles so I raked and shoveled them into the upper portion of my circle drive which now has some gravel. Gerald had smoothed them out with the tractor but there were a couple piles that needed some attention. I worked up a sweat which felt good since we hadn't done much physical work except hiking the past week.
After a lunch of leftovers I headed out to do some repair work on the red shed and then painted those repairs. I headed down to the pile of split wood that I busted up last week before our company came and hauled it back to the fire circle in the golf cart. It took two loads to haul the one last cut from the huge oak that Jake had taken out last winter. I work on some lighter knot which is a petrified pine knot that I use to start camp fires. It works great and the woods are full of them from the last big cutting of pine trees 25 years or more ago.
We headed out on the golf cart to the mailbox and noticed the new owners of Russ and Linda's place had been there and already it looks great with a good mowing and trimming. We are anxious to meet them as they are friends of the Heglar's who have a beautiful place on the way into our area. I took off on a hike to the top and down the golf cart trail to get in some exercise. Nancy stayed back and did laundry as it was too hot for her and too close to eating lunch. I must say Fall is on the way if the number of spiders is any indication. I've never seen so many building their webs along the trails and around the out buildings as they are doing. It's usually a sign of a hard winter with so many already storing up for the winter. I must have knocked 10-15 webs on my hike and they build them back so quickly as well.
We had a salmon fillet along with some peas and mushrooms for our supper as they needed to be used up. We are planning on leaving Sunday morning for Woodstock for a couple days visit with family and want to clean out any unused veggies. I'm getting a few small tomato's finally but nothing to brag about. I ate the first one for breakfast along with grits, eggs and a jalapeno pepper. It had a little taste but not as much as you would expect. This has not been a good year for gardens.
I tuned into the Lightning hockey game and they were losing 3-1 in the third period so I headed to bed around 10'ish and will find out how it ended after finishing this post, LATER
The flowers are fading except for a couple which are beautiful and brilliant. We aren't sure what these are called as they were in the wild flower seeds we sowed in June.
