Well July went out with a much cooler day with tons of sunshine after a wet morning that had dew dripping off the tin roof. The day started with me with a well before 6 rollout. I was disappointed in thinking about the presence of those pesky bats once again finding refuge inside the a/c covering alongside the driveway side of the cabin; but the bat lady came and now they are gone, hopefully forever.
I did my quiet time after posting this ramble to honor my LORD, give thanks for another day and lifted up several by name for comfort and healing. All are holding as I make this post. I headed out to check on the gardens and flower beds and the deer had eaten the beet greens tops off and ate some of the October bean bushes. They weren't ruined but it was evident they had eaten them as well as their hoof prints in the bed.
I pulled another cucumber and noticed the dahlia/zinnia buds were opening a little and while they aren't the dahlia's I was thinking of they are beautiful and all the same color and have height which Nancy wanted. They sure look like zinnia plants and must be a cross breed of them but were advertised as dahlia's, oh well. Everything is looking great but no ripe tomato's yet and they are loaded and when they start to ripe I'll be giving them away. The blueberries are starting to turn but still tart and they too will be plentiful when they ripen.
I piddled around in driveway cutting some low hanging branches and picking up large rocks that neighbor Gerald had loosen after scrapping the driveway on Sunday while we were at church. The heavy storm down pour had washed it out and we are so grateful for him and his tractor for maintaining the driveway and the main road in from the hard top. We decided to take a mid morning hike to the top of the mountain and I stopped to help widow Laura with putting the screens back into the upstairs windows I painted last week. She was so thankful and full of gratitude. We saw Billy and Paula her neighbors and spoke with them for really the first time this summer as they help with caring for her aged mom who is 104. She lives in Winston/Salem and they are down there for two weeks at a time.
We came back and piddled around the cabin until we decided to eat a late lunch early supper as Nancy had her Bible class at 6'ish. We played cards out on the front porch for a couple hours as it was that nice with temps in 70's, and a slight breeze. Perfect mountain weather and the reason we leave hot Florida in the summer. The bat lady came with her brother in law around 6'ish and she removed the tunnels on both side of the bump out and caulked those areas and then removed the covering of the a/c lines which had at least 25 or more bats that flew out at them nearly causing them to fall from their ladder. I'm sure glad despite having to pay extra it was them not me. I had cut spacers to put in the cracks of the boards during the afternoon and had them place them in between the cracks in the covering which had allowed the bats to get in their in the first place; so now hopefully the cabin is totally bat proofed. What an expensive threat they were, oh well.
I tuned into the Ray's vs Yankee's game and sat out on the back porch until dark as it was that nice outside. The Ray's won big in N.Y. 5-1 with the bats finally coming back to life with 4 homers. It was dark and after 9 before Nancy got back on the hill from her class. The moon was big and beautiful on the night as well. It wasn't long after a hot shower I was ready for horizontal lab, LATER
