Well Friday started out with temps in the low 40's put felt like in the low 30's with the stiff breeze. It was our coldest day thus far this fall. My eyes watered on my solo hike to the top of the mountain after finishing up my quiet time to start the day. Yikes it was cold and I had to don my first long pants for the day except of course on Sundays for church as well as an extra long sleeve shirt. It was that cold and stayed that way until noon when the wind died down. Nancy had the faux fireplace on which gives out a small amount of heat and I closed the upstairs hallway with a curtain to keep the heat down stairs. Winter has arrived here in the mountain or at least this is a Florida winter.
I didn't do much around the cabin outside except for some piddly little jobs but I did hand water some of the gardens from the rain barrel. We were supposed to get some rain with this cold front but got nary a drop and lots of the plants and flowers are still producing as the wind really dried out the ground. Those 7 inches or so we got over a week ago have dried up. I did dead head many of the dried up flowers which were looking bad and then I harvested another mess of small tomato's. Those two plants are still producing but looking sad as their end is near. They gave us hundreds of small salad tomato's which are delicious in taste. The larger tomato plants are just about dead with some green ones hanging on but they too look about ready to be pulled out of the ground and disposed of in the compost pile.
We did a late morning hike after it had warmed up enough which made it tolerable to be outside. The views off the mountain were clear and we saw the building in down town Winston-Salem clearly for the first time this summer. I'll post a picture of them from the top of the mountain. I had three deer in the back yard while posting this ramble eating the clover. They haven't for quite awhile eaten anything out of the gardens but do trample around in them as I notice their hoof prints almost every day.
We had a late large lunch as we finished up the deer burgers and some frozen pot pies as we try to eat down the freezer. We have a little over 5 weeks to go and hopefully will not take much back with us in coolers. We headed over to our mountain mom's place and swept her breezeway which had some leaves blown in and then plug her leaf blower in to charge. Its a small lite weight blower one that she can handle but the battery was dead and she couldn't get in out to be charged. We visited for awhile then headed to town to the library for some new reads and then headed to church for our Friday night Bible study with7 of us in attendance. We love our small group and the discussions and of course about the dire shape the country is in with this "wokeism" that had infiltrated our culture and society. It was after 8 before we closed and headed home.
The cabin had cooled down as the outside temps were dropping but the small electric fireplace soon made it warm as Nancy watched TV and I on my laptop watched the Ray's win again. These two last game wins are keeping them in a wild card slot for the playoffs, LATER
These small blimps in the distance are the huge building in down town Winston 70 or so miles away from the top of our mountain
