Well Friday turned out to be another typical winter day with cool temps in the early morning perfect for working outside until mid morning and then the heat and humidity took over until the late afternoon when it became so nice outside in the shade. Mid day its pretty hot in the low 80's with tons of sunshine and clear blue skies. The garden is loving this weather and I'm getting tons of work done around the house now that I'm on the mend after a good hour and half of constant pickle ball play on the inside courts.
I started the day now usually with a 5:30 rollout with some quiet times after posting this ramble to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift several up by name for comfort and healing. Ava Mae is better but not well enough to play in this tournament game later this Saturday evening. We will attend and root for the team after spending a day with friends from our old church that moved north of the Tampa Bay area. We will ride with the Nymark's and leave here around 10:30 to meet them at an eatery for lunch around noon. I'll take them a mess of collards and some black cherry tomato's.
I left the Rec after pickle ball with a wet head and shirt and made a stop at the library for a couple new reads before coming home and having a bite of breakfast as I wanted to work outside in the front yards and garden after mopping all of the floors in the house. We were having 2 other couples for supper and cards later in the evening. I hand watered the gardens and then hauled 7 load of mulch in the wheel barrow and place it around the house and in the front planters so in the next week or so I can put in new shrubs and finish the landscaping out front.
Around 3'ish I place two racks of ribs in tin foil and placed them on the grill for a couple hours at low heat and the meat was ready to fall off the bone, it was so tender. I then uncovered them and put sauce on them on the open grill to dry them out and give them flavor with out being for hours on the smoker. I love this way of doing ribs which is so much easier and really the meat falls off the bones which such flavor as well.
Well Carol brought delicious scalloped taters and Kathy brought roasted veggies of Brussel sprouts, carrots and broccoli plus we had a garden salad and the ribs. Nancy later served a store bought chocolate pie which I passed on. After the cleanup we settled into a long game of hand, knee and foot and while we guys were down after two hands by 24 thousand points we closed in the next two hands to within a thousand points for the loss. It takes awhile to play but keeps the mind sharp. It was going on 10'ish when we completed the game and everyone decided to leave. I loaded up Ed and Kathy with kale, collards and now turning tomato's. I soon hit the shower and watched a half hour of ALONE to wind down for the night, LATER
