Well Wednesday was another chilly morning with temps in the upper 50's to start the day and it never made it out of the 70's with mainly sunshine and a slight breeze. In the shade it actually kept you on the cool side throughout the day. I started the day with a 6'ish roll out to my usual morning routines that after posting this ramble I spent some quiet moments honoring my LORD, giving thanks for another day and lifting several up for comfort and healing. As of now all are holding due to ages and health issues. I headed out to check on the gardens and finish up my quiet time while walking around and viewing such beauty in the flower and garden beds that can only come from the Creator.
After a hearty breakfast of ham, eggs and grits with a jalepeno pepper cut up in the mix I headed out to finish my small project of enlarging the new garden patch in the backwoods yard area. So far its starting to produce some cucumbers and zinnias. It was a large area of weeds and ferns for years that border the dry gulch which occasionally has running water, that comes down from the top of the mountain during extremely heavy rains. I decided to wall up a portion of the bank with down trees and rocks to hold the dirt that I hauled in yesterday in golf cart. I dug and hauled 4 loads and spread it alongside the existing plants in hopes it will hold until next season when I'm moving squash and cucumbers back to this area away from the circle drive bed. This area get tons more sunshine than the circle drive bed which is just what those veggies need to become more prolific.
The blueberry's have yet to ripen but I did see the robins hanging around to eat a few that are starting to turn so I covered them with a mess covering to save at least enough to eat and freeze for Florida as all of the family love cobblers. It was close to 11 when I finished with the dirt hauling so we took off on a slow mountain top hike which was deliteful. The views while being hazy in the distant were awesome with the many ridges and the birds were having a fun day as they raised their families with loud chirping. Such a beautiful day and the hike warmed up our appetites as we skipped lunch for an early supper. I did stop at the widow Laura's house on the way down and helped her replace the screens for her down stairs windows. We chatted with Billy her neighbor for a few before heading back down to the cabin. We just love the view coming down the back trail into the yards and pinch ourselves that GOD has let up have this beautiful place to call our own and to share it with so many.
We had seen a large backhoe working down below the old Todd place on our hike so I jumped in the golf cart to explore while Nancy put together a zucchini pie for our early supper. It seems the new camper area that was built this past year is getting FIOS and the backhoe was digging a trench to their parking spot by the local TV, phone and internet company. It's wild that we have FIOS here out in the woods and not in our neighbor hood in Florida.
Well the pie was delicious, so much so I had two helping and that held us the rest of the day and evening. We headed off to Sparta around 5'ish for Nancy to shop at the Food Lion while I ran out to the library for some new reads. We then headed to Cornerstone for our small group with a great discussion after watching a Gary Hamrick video from Cornerstone, Leesburg, Va. on what is happening with the promotion of Jesus and christianity in the world beside here in the USA. There are many leaders who are not in tune with this globalism and one world order and we especially here in this nation must be fervent in our hope and prayers this does NOT become law or the way of life that we know will forever be changed to the rule by a few elites who want rule our lives.
It was nearly dark when we got back home and I tuned into the Ray's game and we lost 7-2 against the Yanks, but the Orioles also lost so we are still close in the standings. The forecast is for rain and fog the next two days so we are in good shape with food and things to keep us busy inside the cabin, LATER
