Well Tuesday was another fun day as I started it with my usual before 6 rollout to my usual routines that start with some quiet moments after posting the ramble to honor my LORD, to give thanks and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. All seem to be holding as I make this post. We also later in the evening after the spring choral concert at Keswick celebrated our first grand child 16th birthday, Ava. She sang in the choir at school as did Sam our oldest grand son who did a solo in the concert and will be the lead in the school play Peter Pan in a couple weeks. Its so exciting to see our grands maturing and being so community at their school.
I headed out on my bike to the Rec for two plus hours of good pickle ball play winning with different partners through out and left whupped. I made a stop at the library for a couple new reads before heading home to piddle around in the gardens and yards. I harvested another beautiful egg plant for a neighbor as well as another squash. This is the first year I've ever grown any butternut squash and they are of the different type unlike the usual zucchini or yellow squashes. The tomato's plant despite looking rather bad have put on new leaves and limbs as well as more small fruit. I haven't harvested any now for several days but these are maturing once again and we should have fruit to eat in a week or so.The cantaloupes are maturing as well and now some are as large as a soft ball.
I used some liquid weed and grass killer and sprayed the edges of the house and the gardens hoping to keep the grasses from invading the shrubs and garden areas. I used a pitch fork to loosen up some of the barren areas so the hand watering will soak into the ground as it hard and will give the grasses in the yards some moisture before running off. We are definitely in a drought here in hot sunny Florida as we await the rainy season.
I read the afternoon away with a true story of a survivor of the battles in WWII of the Philippines and the surrender to Japan and what took place afterwards. Such evilness by the captors to those under their command. But in the end they got their just reward. This generation today have no idea the ordeal these brave men and women went through to defeat the enemy and save America and their allies from the Japanese, LATER
