Well Monday being a holiday found me without any pickle ball but I did accompany Nancy to her doctor appointment in Clearwater where she had a cyst removed from her breast. Thankfully that's all is was as breast cancer is now becoming a very unpopular illness with many women. We made a Sam's Club stop for fuel and baby back ribs as we were having the Ross clan over for supper. Gas was up to 2.31 from 2.19 since this fraud potus has taken office. We loaded up with our goodies and headed home just before lunch.
I started the day much the usual with a before 6 roll out to my cup of hot green tea while I posted this ramble and then spent some quiet 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. We had rain again over night so I didn't have to hand water the gardens until late afternoon. I did move some of the Romaine lettuce seedlings into an area where the Bibb was which gave them room to grown. I still have some more Bibb seedlings to move up to 6 packs and some to transplant into the ground. This will probably be the last sowing of lettuces as they don't do well in this heat. I did harvest 2 cucumbers and a bucket of green beans. No tomato's set yet but tons of blooms. The wind has been fierce the past couple day and has bent over the tall tomato plants, but they will recover as I have them staked.
It's hot and muggy here while the rest of the country freezes with snow far into the southern states which is an anomaly especially southern Texas. I harvested a huge mess of collards as the Ross's love them and put three racks of ribs into the oven for three hours and then onto the grill to firm them up for about 45 minutes. The meat fell off the bone and everyone enjoyed them. We had baked spuds with all the trimmings and then Amy made a delicious apple pie with some vanillas ice cream for dessert. Wow what a feed. They all left around 8:30 as it was a school night. They even brought Rocky their bull mastiff who is getting huge to say the least. That dog eats and swallows everything he sees. It's a trait of their breed. He is strong and yet very mild mannered and the kids all love him as do Amy and Tyler. He is smart and obeys up to a point but gives off this big bark when strangers come around.
Well I tuned into the rubber game of the Panthers vs Lightening and they whupped us 6-4 in a high scoring game. Our regular goalie had the night off and it showed. At one time we were down 5-2 but came back to be just one goal short but the defense let down and they won, oh well. LATER
