Well July is about gone and August will add another year to this old boy's life, wow where has this time gone. I should be thankful for these many years as I got word yesterday my friend and fellow pickle ball partner who was a few months younger than me suddenly dropped dead from an aneurysm on Saturday evening after playing the game that morning. You just never know when your number is called.
I started the day on Monday with my usual rollout before 6 to my routines that begin with some quiet moments to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort, healing and safety while hiking on the Appalachian Trail. My grandson Sam and his dad Tyler will be there this next week or so. I'm not sure how far they want to go but the scenery thus far is amazing and rugged. Hopefully they stay dry as well.
I piddled around outside in the gardens all morning tying up tomato plants, hoeing weeds and harvesting more yellow squash, cucumbers and zucchini's. I found a bunch of small green worms on my kale so I dispatched them as well as the leaves they had eaten on along with some Japanese beetles on the zinnias which they seem to love best. That kept me busy until lunch time then it was time for some reading on the back porch for the next couple of hours. I did get Nancy to take a hike before supper, up the back trail and then over and down the back road and then down by Steve and Sheri's place and then up our steep drive. She did well for her first hike in many weeks. I'm hoping we can repeat that daily as she get her BP under control and starts to exercise again.
We ate leftovers for lunch and tonight we are having our dear friends the Frankis Family for supper. They have two adorable kiddos and she is expecting again the end of the year. They are a busy bunch with him building their dream house, working the cabinet shop and being the youth pastor at Cornerstone. They both were gone this past week with the group to Niagara Falls. Well that was about it after a supper of chicken salad on a bed of home grown lettuces and leafy greens with a slice of home made sour dough bread, yummy. I did watch the updates on the war in Israel and learned the terrorists killed a dozen or so kids in northern Israel with a rocket from Lebanon. Such useless violence against a class of people because of their ethnicity and that they are mentioned in the Bible as GOD's chosen people, LATER
