Well Saturday was another stay on the mountain and work day, while Nancy did do a few chores to get ready for our daughter and family to arrive with the dog, today Sunday, she basically is still dealing with BP problems and a lot of its anxiousness. I started the day with a well before 6 rollout to my routines that begin with some quiet times to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. All seem to holding with this post. Helen seems to be doing well at her assisted living facility off the mountain as Nancy speaks with her daily.
Well I headed out just after day break to check on the gardens and flower beds for any damage, so far I've lost just one jalapeno pepper plant to a cut worm, but yesterday afternoon there came up a storm which was a "gully washer" dropping a couple inches in such a short time that is washed out several areas in the gardens as well as sowed rows of seeds and then the sun came out and its was pleasant the rest of the day.
I had fixed fences in the front yard as I had a couple locust post to rot off at ground level but the fence was still together so I pulled the fence back up and propped it from behind as a temporary solution and then just did some menial chores all before breakfast. I finished hauling up the last of the porch furniture and now that job is complete. I then made the gardens and a flower beds Rocky proof as he like to run through them, so I put up some fences around them and then started on the upper garden fence which needed rebuilding as it was falling down. We will keep Rocky while they head for Kansas on Sunday morning.
I fired up the chain saw and took down a couple pines that were dying and cut them into lengths to support the wire fence which was initially set up to keep our dogs over the years from running through the gardens. The fence doesn't do anything but keeps dogs away as the rabbits don't seem to want to eat any of the gardens and of course this wire fence wouldn't really stop them if they wanted in. Anyhow that kept me busy for a couple hours and it got so hot I took a brief rest from that chore until it cooled off after the storm.
Afterwards I transplanted a couple dozen sun flowers into different places in the yard and around the upper bed which kept me busy until suppertime. In the mean time while it was so hot I worked in the cool basement cleaning it up, vacuuming and making it presentable for family. Our neighbors across the street in Seminole came over the night before we left and blessed us with two huge frozen grouper filets he had caught in the gulf, so we thawed them out and got 9 nice filets out of them. The bad thing was we had to prepared both as they were frozen together, so I fried them up outside on the grill and now we will have grouper sandwiches for a couple of days for lunch. It was delicious to say the least.
After the cleanup we settled into hand, knee and foot a card game which takes a couple hours to play with all four phases. I finally beat Nancy on the last phase as she has won the last two times we played. It was after 9 when I hit the shower and then some horizontal lab around 10:30, LATER
