Well Monday started out on the chilly side but by mid morning the temps had risen to the middle 60's which felt awesome as I donned t shirt and shorts to work outside after an hour or so of pickle ball inside the gym at the Rec. I started the day with my usual well 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 seem to be holding however I did see in the Winchester Star (local paper back home) that another classmate of mine has passed . I didn't really remember much about her but did know who she had married which was another classmate of mine and I knew him well from P.E. and playing football.
I had a workout with mostly intermediate players on the court but did get in some exercise but never really worked up a sweat, hopefully today I'll work up a sweat with mostly advanced players on the court, at least I'm back for now which I have missed. I came home and decided to work in the garden hoeing, weeding, transplanting some seedlings and there I worked up a sweat until lunch time. Nancy was off to a doctor appointment for a followup on her heart issues with an echo cardiogram which is yearly, since she has a racing heart at times.
We had a lite lunch then she baked some chocolate chip cookies for our "mountain mom" Helen who is just about 15 minutes or so away from us in Largo. Her son Rick moved her down from Elkin to this very nice ALF where she is fed 3 times daily and into a small private room. Its so much nicer facility than the one she was in before and she was always getting covid and being sequestered to her room, oh well. She looked her nearly 97 years young but was lucid and very awake sitting up in her wheel chair. I don't think she gets any exercise but she always has a laugh and looked forward to our visit with the cookies Nancy promised her. Rick was there trying to get social security changed to her facility.
We had an hour or so of remembering back when we first built our cabin and coming to the mountains to visit with Roy and her and how Roy(late husband) helped us in securing the land and doing so much for us before he passed. Rick was seldom in the picture during those 45 years or so, as we looked after her when we were at our cabin. I'm thankful he is now in the picture taking care of her and her needs in her final days, but we sure have enjoyed her and blessed her with being associated with our grandkids which she gets tickled over when they visit. She never had but the one child and he never blessed her with any grands. He had some issues growing up which at one time strained their relationship but that is in the past.
Well Nancy made another pot of that delicious soup called "penicillin " soup that she picked up off the web which as tons of good things in it and it was our supper. After the cleanup I headed in to watch the news and the fires in southern California are just devastating but so is the devastation in western Carolina where its now cold and many folks are still living in tents. You don't hear much about that area but only in the liberal state which isn't right, oh well. Hopefully this time next week Trump is in office and the wrongs can start being corrected this inept potus has done to US(A) the past 4 years.
I did tune into the last wild card game and the Viking were getting blown out by the third quarter so I turned the TV off and went to sleep. Yesterday our youngest grand daughter Eliza, turned 11 and we spoke with her singing the birthday song. We are celebrating her big family dinner this weekend and Nancy is making her favorite cake. Should be a fun time with everyone getting together at Amy's house, LATER
