Well Monday started out on the chilly side with temps in the upper 40's but eventually it got warmer to the upper 60's with bright sunshine and blue skies. Almost a near perfect day weather wise. I donned long pants and sweat shirt, but as the morning progressed I stripped down to a t-shirt and shorts. It was basically a work morning around the cabin and then a visit to friends and then some reading time on the deck in the afternoon. We did get in a hike to the top of the mountain and the haze had cleared enough from the cold to see the buildings in Winston Salem for only the second time this summer. That is about 70 miles away. Pilot Mountain was a clear stand out as well.
I started the day with a 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 are holding with this post with some with more severe health issues than others. I headed out to stretch on the back porch after my morning news watch and social media posts to walk around the property and check for deer damage. I didn't notice a whole lot eaten over night and I did harvest more tomato's and squashes later in the day. I did hand water a few of the patches, especially now that the October bean vines are making once again, since the deer ate them down to nearly nothing. Since I put a fence around them and a device in front they are doing better and have even set bean pods. Maybe I'll get a mess of them as they are my favorite beans both dried and fresh from the hull.
I unloaded the apple wood a friend gave me then took my new mini chainsaw and cut them up into small blocks for the smoker and stored them under neath the front porch in my storage area to dry out. I have enough to last quite awhile as we don't use the smoker as much. We decided to have a large breakfast as we each fixed our own menu. I had a couple eggs over grits and a tomato with a chopped up jalapeno pepper, delicious and that held me until 1'ish when we got back from our mountain top hike and sliced up a cucumber and a tomato. The cukes are on their way out for this season as the vines are dying, oh well.
We loaded up some garlic bulbs and tomato's and headed up to the Cardon household where I planted the garlic for Mary and Bob and then they blessed us with a piece of blueberry pound cake their daughter Christine had made for us from the blueberries we gave them last week. So sweet of her and it was delicious to say the least. We came back and I piddled around in the yards and driveway raking out some heavy piles of gravel and then harvesting some Swiss chard for supper which was a pan fried boneless rib eye steak we shared along with some tatter cakes and the chard, all were delicious, especially the left over mashed tatters fried as cakes, yeow. After the clean up I headed out to activate the deer devices and pull some grasses coming up with seed heads from one of the flower beds before calling it a night outside as evening was coming on.
We decided to play a game of hand, knee and foot and I just barely beat Nancy by a couple hundred points when the scores were in the 40 some thousand points. Luckily I was ahead by 10K points going into the final phase but I could not get one of my required books so she gained those points and nearly beat me, oh well. I turned on the college football game and N.C. was losing to TCU at the half. I hit the shower then and was soon in the horizontal position for the night, LATER
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