Wednesday Morning Dec 3rd

Well you would never know its winter here as its been in the upper 80's during the afternoon with tons of humidity, so much so I spend the afternoon reading in the house with the a/c full on, oh well. It sure beats trying to stay warm with below freezing temps in the mountains. Tuesday was rather typical except for the evening when we visited with Sheri and Steve at their place for supper and cards and to celebrate neighbor and friend Dan's 71 big day.

I had a started the morning with a well before 6 rollout to my routines that begin with some quiet times to honor Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing, all are holding some better than others and some going down hill fast with severe health issues. I headed out on my bike to the REC for a great work out and some really good play with all A players and left after close to 2 hours of non stop play, winning most of my matches with different players. We play that winners split after each match so a couple doesn't dominate and its makes for good play. We have about as many women players and men and all are good players. I'm still the oldest of the group on these Tue. and Thurs. match ups but on M,W,F, there is a player a couple years older than me, but he isn't very good or active, oh well. At least he comes for some exercise at 82.

I came back and had a bite of breakfast with half an avocado and egg drizzled with olive oil and a slice of toast before we headed out to shop at Sam''s Club, Lowes and Publix. I filled up at 2.80 a gallon which is up from last weeks at 2.76, oh well. I'm looking forward to 2 bucks a gallon with all of the oil been produced with Trump's energy policies. The local gas was at 3.19 and I thought something is wrong because even at Sam's they had to be making a profit and the locals were ripping off consumers, oh well.

I bought some onion slips that are supposed to grow into vidalia like bulbs and transplanted them into the garden later in the afternoon when the heat some what abated, plus a cilantro plant. Everything in the garden seems to be growing and now I have radishes up and breaking ground in only 4 days, wow. During the afternoon I read for a couple hours and the true criminal investigation of a murder back in the 90's is starting to see some evidence pointing to the guilty. Its a great read but a long one as the two detectives are writing this story.

Well we picked up Dan and Carol and headed to the Nymark's at 5:30 for supper and cards. It was store bought lasagna, salad and key lime pie for dessert. Sheri's life long friend Sandy came alone as Jim her husband is not doing well with his health, so we played Michigan Rummy which is played alone instead of team play. Well Carol won both games which is tough to do but fun and you must be quick and thinking ahead of the various sets you need acquire to go down. It was 10 when we finished and headed home. I jumped into the shower as was in bed by 10:30 after an early morning rise, LATER

Tuesday Morning Dec 2nd

Well Monday turned out to be another hot sunny day with no rain which is needed. I got in some pickle ball play early in the morning and then worked in the gardens off and on during the morning and late afternoon once the temps abated. I started the day much the usual with a before 6 rollout to my quiet time to honor 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. 

The bike ride to the Rec for a good hour and half of pickle ball was quite pleasant but was starting to warm up quickly on the ride back home. I had a couple hours before I had a skin appointment at 11:30 so I hand watered the gardens and set out a couple tomato seedlings I had been growing into the garden proper. I eventually set out another 12 lettuce seedlings I had started from seeds as well into the garden as well. I have just about used up 3/4 of the gardens but sill have enough room for more beet seedlings I'm growing in a pot.

I read the afternoon away during the hottest parts and started a new read thats a real page turner by two homicide cops in L.A. who never gave up on solving a murder back in the 90's. It's titled BLACK TUNNEL WHITE MAGIC and its a real life story and very interesting. Nancy decided we needed to eat a frozen pizza for supper which was fine since I cleaned up the leftover turkey for lunch and wasn't really hungry. I'm trying to eat less and more salads now that I'm growing leafy greens for the salad bowl. I set the sprinkler on the front yard for an hour or so as evening lessen the heat of the day.

I read until shower time and then watched a little of the NFL but found it boring so I switched to some survival show which is kind of staged unlike ALONE where the folks have to film themselves in the wild, LATER

Monday Morning Dec 1st 2025

 Well Sunday was a fun day and a first for me in years as I attended a Buc's game in Tampa with son Bobby's family and with son in law Tyler and grandson's Sam and Gabe and the Buc's won the game for a change. I had to miss my greeter job at S.R.B.C. but did worship on line at Cornerstone Chapel. It was a near perfect day for being outside and the crowd was huge with lots of Buc followers. We are still leading our division but I doubt we will go far in the playoffs as the Panthers are just a game back and they beat the Rams today which destroyed us last week, oh well.

I started the morning much the usual with a before 6 rollout to my routines that begin with some quiet times to honor 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 did head out to hand water the gardens before heading to Tampa with Tyler and Sam where we met up with Bobby and family minus Annsley for the game that started at 1 PM. 

Bobby's mother in law has season tickets which are on the 40 yard line about 10-12 rows from the field and they were great seats to say the least and the stadium is modern with two huge jumbo screens on each end of the stadium and if your blocked by a fan you can view the play on them live with replays, very nice and the excitement from the crowd is awesome as well. It was a bright sunny day but not overly hot and humid and while the home town team won it was close at the end. The traffic leaving the place was awful and the GPS took us out of the way due to streets being blocked from the game, for nearly and extra hour getting back home, so it was 2 plus hours getting home after dark, oh well.

I grabbed a left over hamburger for supper them settled into the night games until shower time and then some horizontal lab at 10, LATER