Well Monday started out with overcast skies and stayed that way until late afternoon when we saw the sun briefly, but the temps weren't bad with a high somewhere close to 70. Nancy had a couple loads of laundry outside on the clothesline which eventually dried and I worked outside all day except for a mid morning hike to the top of the mountain. We had a delicious large breakfast of sausage, eggs and toast which held me until suppertime when we finished up the stuffed green peppers and smashed tatters with a garden fresh salad.
I started the day with my usual 6'ish rollout to my routines that start with some quiet time to honor my LORD, give thanks for another day and to lift us several by name. All seem to be holding as I make this post although a couple are hurting from illnesses. I headed out after breakfast and dug up the couple of lettuce seedlings from the back yard garden and transplanted them into the upper garden patch which the deer seem to leave alone as they have been in the former garden almost every night eating the green pepper plants as well as the beet plants. I had sowed some lettuce seeds a week or so again and they had matured to a couple of leaves so I transplanted them as well in the upper garden in hopes they will continue to give us leafy greens for the salad bowl.
All of the tomato plants have died but I still have several ripening which will supply us with fruit for another week or so. They sure did well this summer all coming from volunteer seedlings I brought from my Florida garden last winter. The rosemary is still doing quite well and I'm hoping it will come back next summer but it usually dies from the cold here at the cabin. The kale and parsley as well as the cilantro are still doing fine but the cucumber leaves from those couple of cold morning are showing signs of dying. I still have hundreds of blooms but I'm not sure they will make.
I harvested another pint of blueberries which just keep on producing and there are another couple of pickings that are still turning. What an abundant harvest this year from just two bushes and the other two haven't started producing for some reason this year. I had a brush pile down below the gardens in the gully and decided to see if it would burn and I got it started. It burned which took nearly all day as there were some old decayed logs pieces in it as well as old berry bushes and lots of tree trimmings. I love the smell of burning wood.
Well that was about it for a Monday as Nancy's Bible class was cancelled due to several showing signs of illness, so we settled into the Bucs game for the first half which was a bust for the home team so I hit the shower and found my book more interesting than the game and turned the TV over to her. The Nymark's are coming back today so I'm sure we will play later tonight some cards, LATER
