Well this month is nearly gone with this being the last Sunday of this month and next week we are supposed to be attending Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Va. where Gary Hamrick is the pastor and who we listen to every week as well as our pastor at S.R.B.C. Time is flying by and we will soon be packing up and leaving this awesome place for hot, sunny Florida in about 9 weeks. Our stay here for the summer is winding down with less than half that time to go.
Well Saturday was a first for us as we saw our first black bear on the property in over 30 years and while it was what appeared to be a juvie it was still something to gaze at and it really showed itself for several minutes after I spotted it just off the back porch. It was trying to get into the compost pile where I had dumped a bunch of grease and drippings from the pork ribs I had prepared for yesterday's supper. He must of smelled that from wherever and wanted to get into the compost which I had covered with chicken wire. Anyhow Nancy got some great shots of him from the deck before he scampered off into the woods. I eventually took the garden hose and washed off that smell and then later on in the evening we had several hard rain showers which also washed off that smell. We really needed this rain as well as I've been watering with the hose daily.
I did my morning routines after all the early excitement with some quiet time time to honor my LORD, give thanks for another day and to lift several up by name. All are holding with no change that I know of. I headed out to walk the property finishing up my talk with my Creator but keeping an eye out for this bear just in case. I'm sure he is long gone and except for smelling unwanted scraps we won't see it again. I had a lite breakfast of oatmeal with blueberries, pecans, cinnamon, honey and a banana which held us until we made BLT's for our lunch, yikes were they ever delicious and we ate lite for supper with just a salad and the leftover ribs which weren't many from the night before.
I harvested another pint of blueberries from my two bushes which obviously the bear hasn't spotted as its one of their favorite foods and then harvested a peck of 1/2 runner beans; giving neighbor Gerald a sack of them along with some cucumbers and tomato's. I have a sack of beans for our "mountain mom" Helen as well and we will drop them off after church for her. They are starting to come in and we will take a sack with us to sister Dee's next week as well. The slugs ate everyone of my new lettuce seedlings off over night so I resowed them again in another pot, oh well. The day started out rather nice temperature wise but by the afternoon it really warmed up with high humidity so on went the a/c for the rest of the day. We had a couple lite rain showers during the afternoon and we thought it was over when a huge storm hit us with thunder and lightning and a gully washer down pour, thankfully Gerald is here this weekend with his tractor and will scrap the road.
We watched the two little league world series games and then I settled into the Ray's game and they beat the Yankees finally after losing the night before. The Orioles continue to lead the division which we at one time held. I read until lights out at 10;ish for me another J.A. Jance novel, LATER
