Well it is quiet around the cabin after Dan and Carol left early Sunday morning and we got a text from Sheri and Steve as they left their place which is just below us as they too left around 9'ish. We said good bye to them Saturday night. So its just Nancy and myself except maybe for a neighbor or two the next three weeks when we also leave on a Sunday morning. Oh well, time moves on as does the seasons and we have now have had the heat on 24/7 for the past couple of days as its not brutally cold, but overcast with a breeze and lows in the 40's at night.
Dan and Carol got home after a 12 hour drive and Sheri and Steve stopped halfway as they were pulling a trailer loaded with equipment, tools, bikes and scooters plus things they weren't going to use again as they have put their place up for sale. It seems their grands aren't interested in coming here for any extended visit and the main reason I think is no actual place to visit together. The shipping container is quaint and cute, but no room for any amount of folks other than two and even that isn't comfortable. They ate every night with us and played games as well and we never visited them except to walk through the area outside on our hikes. I sure wish they had either put a modular of some kind of building on the property or at least a trailer as he made three hook ups with electric, water and sewage.
We worshipped first on line with Gary Hamrick at Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Va. and then again at our local Cornerstone Fellowship in Sparta. Afterwards we did the Mexican eatery in town for a delicious lunch which held me the rest of the day except for some blueberry buckle(cake) Nancy had made for the group on Saturday night as a dessert which I passed on. I vegetated on the couch the rest of the day and evening watching the NFL. Our Bucs in Tampa beat the 49niners and son Bobby and Katie with grandson Gabe and several other family members were there as well. What a game and despite some bone head fouls we held on to win. The local team here in N.C. also won over the Cowboys after they had lost 3 straight games. Its baseball playoffs so I switched back and forth during commercials to watch some of that game as well but took a shower at the halftime of the late game and then hit the sack around 10'ish after reading for a few.
Today Monday I'm starting to put the gardens and flower beds in winter shape by cutting down the stalks and replacing the beds with pine needles which helps retard the growth of weeds and grasses over the winter and the spring months. Neighbor Gerald and Phylis were up to their place over the weekend and he noticed a pile of bear scat near his one deer stand on the back road from our cabin. We have not seen any signs of the bear all summer despite at times having trash in cans below the back porch. I guess I'm back to hiking around the property once again since my hiking buddies have left. I hiked for at least 2 miles at 8 AM every morning that Dan and Steve were here and while I didn't lose any belly fat I did seem to get in better shape with my recovery time after a hike up the steep driveway. We now have tons of leftovers to clean up so we won't be cooking anything new for a couple of days, oh well.
We head back to our Monday night Bible classes for two more weeks and then on Tuesday to our couples class as well, then we are gone until next May/June. I'm already dreading the traffic in Florida and the scenery but looking forward to planting my winter garden and getting back to pickleball at the Rec, LATER
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