Well Saturday was a fun day but once again the heat and humidity was over bearing with temps at 103 in the afternoon in Tampa, wow that is a first for here in a long time. We will so look forward to the cool temps and damp weather which we will be facing us when we arrive on Tuesday afternoon, but any thing is better than triple digits and no rain, oh well. The day started with my usual 5'ish rollout 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 and healing, all seem to be holding with this post.
I headed out to check on the last of the garden here in Florida for this summer and hand watered the kale and collards and this morning I will harvest the last of them to give away at church and then tomorrow I will take out their stalks and rotor till that area. I also hand watered the new sod which has now just about covered up the bare area where the big oak once stood. We sure miss the shade from the big oak as that was a contention of mine for keeping it. I gave the front shrubs which have done well since we put them in the ground and I'm hoping they have established enough to survive with out me hand watering them until the rainy season comes.
I caught up on some small honey do's before we got ready to head to Tampa and watch Sam participate in a jiu jitsu competition at USF where hundreds of folks from some as young ages 4 and up to some that looked to be in their 40's competed in an arena with 12 mats. Sam had a rough compete as he won one match out of four, but he was aggressive against larger boys supposedly his age. It was a tough day as the waiting took its toll as his matches were constantly being pushed back. We were there around 3 hours and only minutes before we had to leave, did he get to participate and then the matches were almost back to back which didn't give him much recover time, oh well. We were certainly proud of him and his toughness.
We got back and had just about 20 minutes to get ready to head out with Dan and Carol to the Tracy's place for supper and cards. It had cooled down to 95 at our place which is unheard of because of the breeze off the water surrounding Pinellas County, but the difference from 103 to 95 was telling despite the bright sunshine. I'm still amazed at the amount of folks living in the Bay Area with all of the traffic still clogging the roadways on not a work day, of course it a holiday weekend and folks are out to the beaches but I believe it was unhealthy to be outside for long periods in the high heat index, oh well. Just walking from the arena to the truck was intense and of course our ages made a difference I'm sure.
Kathryn had a lasagna and we brought a Caesar salad and Carol a delicious avocado dessert which believe it or not tastes like chocolate pudding with whipped cream and fruit on top. Delicious to say the least. We played 4 rounds of hand, knee and foot and the gals smoked us on the last hand after we were ahead at one time by thousands. We got back home just before 10 and it was shower time for me and then some NHL just for a few minutes before lights out.
Today will be our last Sunday greeting at S.R.B.C. until we hopefully get back in November. There will be lots of hugs and handshakes and a few tears as we say so long until then, LATER
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