Well Thursday was a busy day that started with a before 6 roll out to my routines that always start with some quiet time to honor my LORD, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. All seem to be holding except for a dear friend Eddie who has been paralyzed due to a farming accident 6 years or so ago and has now developed pneumonia. Everyone else on the list is holding. Keep our son, Bobby and family in your thoughts and prayers for traveling mercy as they head this way tomorrow for a week of vacation.
I checked all of the gardens and flower beds and despite seeing three large deer in the backwoods yard after awakening they didn't eat anything. Hopefully with all the browse in the woods they will not eat my gardens which are doing quite well. We headed off to Galax, Va. with a stop at the dumpsters and then to the bank in town before gassing up at 3.17. I dropped Nancy off at Wal-Mart to shop for next weeks company and once again it took two carts and over 400 bucks to fill the need, oh well there were extras for the grands which always add up. We took an item by our "mountain mom" Helen she requested on the way home after having lunch at Wendy's. They have a good spicy chicken sandwich and their fries are delicious. It was close to 2 before we got back to the cabin to unload and Nancy was busy in the kitchen preparing a couple dishes to take with us to the Frankis House around 5:30.
I hand watered all of the veggie and flower gardens emptying the 55 gallon rain barrel that was about 2/3 full and noticed the October beans were sending out runners like the half runner green beans. I decided to stake them as well using some bean poles and old ski rope so they could climb on and stay off the ground. I had forgotten they send out runners as its been many moons since I've actually grown them on the farm and I don't believe we stakes them then, oh well. I have probably 30 plants total in three short rows but they are one of the most delicious beans, either as dried or cooked after shelling and they look just like a birds egg after shelling before they dry and then look like a pinto after drying but that is where the comparison stops.
We had a delicious supper at Jake and Katelyn's place which they are going to put on the market sometime this summer as they are preparing their beautiful property off Air Bellows to build their dream house. We had rib eye's, corn on the cob, macaroni salad and mixed veggie casserole that Nancy made and baked beans, what a feast and later peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream. No wonder I can not lose any of this spare tire. We taught them the new board game called Jokers and Pegs and they loved it and the gals took the best of three games as we played partners. It was after 10 when we finished the last game and the guys barely won before heading out for the cabin. What a great time we had and their kiddos are just too cute and so smart, LATER
