Well I must say Thursday was one of those days I sure miss sunny hot Florida because we never ventured outside the cabin due to rain and cool temps. We actually had the heat on during the morning hours once again as the cool dampness was evident inside. I actually hung the sheet between the upstairs to keep the heat down stairs, it was that chilly. Part of the cabin warming back up again was due to the fact it was closed up for 4 days with temps down into the 40's, oh well. I do see signs of an early Fall this year.
I started the day with a sleep in until nearly 7 as we caught up on sleep while being in a strange bed for 3 nights at sister Dee's place. It always takes me a few nights to get acclimated to a strange but a very comfortable bed at her place. I did my usual morning routines that start with the cup of hot tea while I post this ramble about the day before's activities and then some quiet moments with my Creator in giving thanks and lifting several up by name for comfort and healing.
The rain had awakened me early in the morning hours and it never stopped all day long until the late hours of the evening. I decided since I was cabin bound to catch up on some chores inside like vacuuming the walls of the cabin which are wood and do hold some dust as well as areas missed during normal cleaning and dusting. Nancy has a blood hound nose and she thinks there is a musty smell in one cabinet so I took out all of the pots, pans, platters etc. and painted the inside with some Kiltz. Next I hung some some paintings and "what nots" in the upstairs bathroom and then a painting Dee specifically painted for the cabin. It's the half face of a bear looking around a corner and I'm surprised at her talent.
We did a mountain breakfast since we had our big meal around 2'ish on Wednesday at Applebee's in Galax and we were ready to have some of that delicious bacon we purchased in Virginia in 4 pound vacuum packs. Nancy now like to bake the bacon in the oven and it turns out delicious and perfectly uniform. Along with that we had grits, eggs and a biscuit. I also chopped up a jalapeno pepper to accompany mine with a home grown 'mater from my garden. They aren't the prettiest 'maters but did taste great. That meal held us the rest of the day until supper time which was a meatloaf and beets.
Uncle Mike blessed us with a sack of his home grown jalapenos which were huge so we made close to a 100 jalapeno poppers and froze them for when our guests arrive next week. My pepper plant is still producing as well so we should have plenty to cook with until we leave in October.
We settled into the Fox channel until the Lightning Hockey game came on and while it was a tough game they won in overtime against a tough Islander Team who kept the pressure on the whole game. The Bolts next play the Dallas Team in the Stanley Cup Finals starting Saturday night. I think we will miss most of that game as we are attending a Christian Music benefit for the earthquake victims here in Sparta. Our praise band will be one of the groups who will be entertaining us with good Christian Music.
Well that was about it for Thursday as the rain has ceased this Friday morning. It's supposed to clear off later today and once again bring us some clear sunshine weather with cool temps from now on out this Fall season, LATER
