Well Monday found me once again up well before 6 as my body still is adhering to the old time internally but I did manage to do some extra quiet moments to lift up several for comfort and healing. All seem to be holding as of this post. We are still dry and hot here in Florida but there was some cloud cover for most of the day that sure looked like it could rain at any moment. I headed off to pickle ball a little before 8 and while most of the players were intermediates there were a couple decent players so I stayed and worked out for close to two hours and then made a stop at the library on the way home.
I piddled around in the gardens hand watering and then moving some seedlings up into larger pots as well as put some kale seedlings into the ground proper. Everything is doing as well as can be expected despite losing a couple of spinach seedlings. For some reason I've never had much luck with spinach but with the other leafy greens its just the opposite. The one Roma tomato plant has tons of blooms despite the plant only about a foot in height and I have two jalapeno's peppers already growing on my one plant. The collards are almost large enough to harvest but I think I'll add them to the salad bowl to start along with some lettuces that are large enough to harvest.
I had a 1 PM VA appointment and then another one at 3 PM so I had a bite of lunch then hit the showers as I had worked up a sweat both on the court and in the gardens. The VA eye exams was great once again with both eyes still doing well and no progression on either of the glaucoma or macular degeneration. They did let me order another pair of readers so now I will have a spare instead of having to carry that one with me both in the truck and having one at home. The 6 month primary checkup was decent as well with a drop in the the cholesterol by 20 points and the good HDL was awesome despite a rise in the LDL. I can correct that with eating less and not so much red meat. PRAISE GOD everything else was normal.
I got back around 4 in all that evening traffic and then we headed out to our first community group from church to the Waters House in Largo around 5:30. We picked up neighbor Dan as he rode with us.There are 7 couples who will do this journey twice a month as we talk about the Sunday's sermon and fellowship together. Carol was the only MIA as she is recovering from a bad head cold and cough. We met 2 new couples for the first time and one was a fireman who recognized me from FHP. All are younger than me but older than Nancy and we had a delicious supper of Mexican food and ate outside on their back patio. It was a great evening and we throughly enjoyed the fellowship and study. This coming evening we will travel with Tyler to Ava's game in Dade City area, LATER
