Well we have just 19 more wake up's before leaving here for hot humid Florida, except for this last storm which we will never forget its been a great summer. I will be sad to leave but excited to see family for more than just a couple days when they all came over the summer. We will be sitting the twins the first week back and I will be back on the pickle ball courts daily and then it will be gardening time once again; so we have lots to look forward to as well as missing the ambiance here with everything around us is GOD's creation, oh well we are blessed with two different lifestyles yearly.
I started Monday with another sleep in until 6:30 which has happened since the storm kept me up for almost 2 days. I did my routines that begin always with some quiet time to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing and now for all of the regions who were destroyed and devastated by this storm over this past week. Lets ALL pray this event never happens again in our life time. I headed out to check on the gardens, whats left and then worked outside all morning after a hearty mountain breakfast of sausage, eggs, biscuits with a sliced tomato accompanied by a hot jalapeno pepper. This year they are exceptionally hot despite their small size, last year I could eat them like an apple but not this year, oh well.
It is still wet in all of the gardens and yards but we did get a little drying out with a small trickle of water running in the usually dry gulch which had a large stream flowing for days. The bloody deer ate some of my last tomato's in the garden so I harvested what was left and set them on the porch rails to completely ripen and then covered that patch with pine needles to keep the weeds and grass out until we get here next summer. I also covered two more flower and garden patches with pine needles as well and replanted some garlic bulbs which had rooted but had washed out of the backwoods garden patch when it over flowed during the 16 inches of rain run off.
I headed down to see Stevie and we took the golf cart up the back road to check on a downed tree and Ed and Carol on top of the mountain were already working it up to clear the road. I offered to help but they insisted they would handle the job. We learned that Sheri and Steve are cutting this visit short and heading back to Florida on Wednesday morning due to the damage to their son's home and helping with schedules for their grands. We will miss them but understand their decision to leave to help. We rode out this storm together and shared suppers nightly and last night after supper we the guys whupped the gals in two games of hand, knee and foot after they came from behind in the overall count to tie us at 5 game a piece.
Well that was about it as it continues to dry out the mountain and there are still folks up on top of our mountain without power, but all have generators which I'm thinking about purchasing to have on hand for the future; except for the loss of power which made it tough to get water and reach the outside world on the internet we were safe, dry and stayed warm. The heat here wasn't a factor like in Florida which is also drying out as well, LATER
