Well Thursday was another busy day that started with my before 6 rollout to my usual morning routines of some quiet moments to honor my Lord after posting this ramble to give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. The lists get longer each day but thus far all are holding. I headed out on my bike to the Rec and two hours of pickle ball play with good players as its the advanced player day set aside at the Rec for us. We do occasionally get a few intermediates on these two days but yesterday they were all decent players. I was whupped by 10'ish and headed home on my bike to piddle around outside in the yards and gardens. Nancy was taking off shortly there after to shop as that has become almost a daily occurrence. That will change in about a month when we get to the cabin to once a week in the big city of Galax where there is a super Wal-Mart and a few more shops than Sparta.
I put out more rat poison as they chewed up 3 nice large tomato's that were green on the volunteer plant which ticked me off. The what I thought was a couple volunteer cucumber plants are turning out to be I think cantaloupe plants with several small round fruits already set. I never know whats going to pop up in my compost pile but if it survives then I replant it to see what grows from it. That's exciting as this huge volunteer tomato was doing so great with lots of nice fruit until the dang rats have attacked it. I've put out lots of poison and what I thought was rats turned out to be a possum but I've not seen them eat on whole green tomato's, oh well.
I read the afternoon away until supper smelling the pot of collards I had put on the stove around 11'ish. Wow were they ever giving off a delicious odor. I grilled a couple pork chops and Nancy made a pan of corn bread to accompany and we dined country boy style. After the clean up I got ready and headed out to the mens Bible study group at S.R.B.C. where around 25 or more of us gathered to study about the attributes of GOD. It was basically what I already knew about growing up in the WORD but nice to hear younger and few old fellers like me talk about it. I got back around 8'ish and tuned into the Lightning game and they were losing big time after winning big time on Tuesday, LATER
