Well, one more week to go and June will be gone and so will be the long days of summer as we work down to the winter equinox. Time just seems to fly by the older we get. Wednesday was an uneventful day except we did make a Sparta run jut before lunch to the pharmacy, library and grocery store as we are entertaining The Frankis Family; Jake, Katelyn and Skylar for supper today (thur). We outside temps were quite cold this morning at 52 degrees and it did not get much out of the 60's for most of the day. On a sad note an old grade school girlfriend passed away on Sunday and I saw her obituary in the Winchester Star. I hadn't seen her in many years as she grew up on our bus route to Gore School.
I started the day with my usual before 6 roll out to my routines and the cup of hot tea was welcome on this cool morning. After my routines of posting this blog and quiet times to honor my Creator and Lord while lifting several up by name I donned a flannel shirt for my early morning non stop hike to the top of the mountain. I did run off a huge deer which was in the back yard after getting up. It was the first one I've seen in broad daylight in the yards thus far and it was very large. So far no deer damage to the plants.
I piddled around hand watering the recently transplanted beet seedlings in both gardens. They are one hard plant to replant but once they take they are a hardy vegetable. We love the leaves as much if not more than the beet itself. We steam the leaves or add them raw to our salads. I did noticed a couple blooms on the cucumber plants. I pulled weeds and grasses which grow where I don't want them from the flower beds. I have no idea why the zinnias seeds are not germinating as well as expected in the portrait fence flower bed. We have a couple seedlings up but last year the bed was loaded with flowering plants.
We got back around 1'ish from Sparta and popped a frozen pizza in the oven for our lunch. Nancy doctored it up with fresh mushrooms and it was delicious and held us until 6:30 when I fried up the last of the bass we caught a couple weeks ago along with a fresh garden salad. The tomato's I brought with us from my Florida garden are just about gone as I've been ripening them on the back porch railing. They stayed firm in the cool basement much like the ones we get in the store when they are harvested green. The flavor is not as good but these aren't bad. We did take a long hike to the top of the mountain and noticed the black rasp berries at the old Browning place are starting to ripen. Alysia the new owner did mention we could pick the berries if they are gone and the berries are not being used. We must let her know they are ripening.
Well after supper I tuned into both the Rays and then the Lightning games until nearly 11:30 when the Lightning game went into over time. They lost and now move back to Tampa for the final game. The Ray's finally came to life and beat the Red Sox, who are first in their division 8-2. It was a tough night for the Bolts as they suffered some injuries from dirty plays that was never called by the refs, LATER
