Well its been down right chilly here in the morning and great temps for working outside during the rest of the day. I managed to work outside after an early morning start that began with a well before 6 rollout to my routines that begin with some quiet time to honor my lord, Jesus and give thanks for another day and to lift several up by name for comfort and healing. All seem to be holding with this post. After a breakfast of oatmeal loaded with cinnamon, honey, pecans and a banana I headed out to walk the property with Rocky. He loves to be outside and misses his hikes to the top of the mountain but there are too many other dogs there so we stay down here and he gets plenty of exercise, running and roaming the woods.
I put on long pants and donned an extra shirt as it was 49 degrees and it stayed in the low 70's for most of the day and when the clouds moved in at times the temps dropped considerably. I managed to clean out two culverts which were completely covered over with water run off of leaves, rocks, dirt and gravel. I hauled off a load of wet leaves that had helped clog the culverts. What a job that was and I used muscles that ached the rest of the day while being down in a ditch.
Neighbor Gerald texted Nancy that he was going to have neighbor Tim at the foot of the driveway, use Gerald's tractor to help with scrapping the drive and move some of the gravel back up the driveway. Its just too much for me to handle with a rake. Hopefully Gerald with let me use his tractor in the future when he isn't round. Jake offered to bring his tractor over and scrap the road but that is just a far way to go for him. Jake did come by after supper and check on the riding mower, bringing a new belt and now I'm back in business for yard mowing. It seems the belt some how got off the front pulley which I didn't notice and I could have fixed the problem myself, oh well. I now have a new drive belt which the old one was probably at least 20 plus years old as I have never replaced it.
I took the afternoon off and watched the Ray's play ball against the Oakland team and they won in the 12th extra inning. It was a good game for the Ray's as they won 2 out of 3 against a very good team. We had a half a rotisserie chicken we had picked up at the Food Lion yesterday along with an ear of silver queen corn for our supper. We wanted to be done with supper before Jake and Katelyn arrived so we ate around 5'ish which really is a good time for us as we try to lose a pound or to this summer. Eating early helps I'm told. I piddled around in the yards and gardens and hand watered some of the newly transplanted bedding flowers. The wind has been constant the last couple days and have dried out the gardens and flower beds so I gave most every thing a drink after supper as well as spread some lime around in the gardens an flower beds.
After Jake and Katelyn left we settled into some hockey playoffs until 9 then it was shower time and some reading a new book before lights out at 10, LATER
