Well Thursday turned out to be an exceptionally beautiful day with short sleeve temps by late afternoon and evening, although its supposed to turn cold again over the weekend. It was a work day for us until supper time when Mike and Dee arrived and we ate high on the hog as the old saying goes with smoked baby back ribs, fried tatters, black eye peas or something similar, corn bread and a fresh salad. We skipped any dessert as first we are getting fat and second we were stuffed despite the pumpkin pie Nancy put together.
I started the day with my usual 6'ish rollout to my morning routines that start with some quiet moments to honor my LORD, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name. All seem to be holding as of this post. Since my hiking buddy Steve was fixing to leave and head back to Florida, I hiked up and down the driveway 3 times which gave me some exercise and got the respirations up. I did that again later in the evening while waiting on Dee and Mike to arrive.
I put two racks of ribs on the smoker for 7 hours and they were perfect to say the least and we have a whole rack yet to eat over the next couple of days. I dug and hauled 4 loads of dirt for the lower yard and spread it as I want to even out the hill for the mower next summer. It should fill in over the winter months and spring. Nancy was busy in the kitchen once again prepping for guests with making soup, salads, baking pie, etc. She is a workaholic when it comes to entertaining for guests and family.
It warmed up enough to turn the heat off for the evening as both Mike and Dee like it cooler than most and now that we have the extra layer of fat it felt good to be a little cooler, however Nancy had the heat on over night. We did get into two games of hand and foot and the guys swept both games boldly. I hit the shower a little after 10 and was soon out while Nancy lingered until later in the evening. I think today we are heading over to West Jefferson to fram around, LATER
