Well Friday after a chilly start it warmed up nicely and the gentle breeze kept it perfect for finishing up the paint job on the house. I have a few touch ups but the main job is completed and it turned out better than expected. Many neighbors stopped by either driving or walking and commented on the look which I'm glad as I sure didn't want to have to do it all over again. I'll replace a couple doors and paint them and now I'll work on the front yard with some new shrubs and flowering plants today as we head to a nursery.
I did my usual routines of some quiet moments to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and then lifted up several by name for comfort and healing. All seem to be doing as well as can be expected after my usual 5:30 rollout or a little before, thats is usually when I have to get up and go the bathroom for the first time during the night. The key to that is dark chocolate which as an ingredient in it that doesn't something to the prostrate. I tell all of my old male friends that is the secret for not getting several times during the night, oh well, just and FYI. I headed out around 8:30 for the local barber shop and Patty who has been cutting my hair for over 20 years is moving to Largo which is about 15 minutes or so north of here. Her land lord is raising rents and doing nothing for the building so she's moving out after 25 years in this location, oh well. I'll sure miss her being so close as I use to ride my bike there for years.
I came back and had a breakfast of eggs and avocado toast with a fresh garden tomato which held me until some veggies dipped on ranch dressing around 1'ish. I had cut in the last three peaks of the house and then painted these areas on a high ladder which Nancy held steady for me and then after lunch painted both porch floors after cleaning and treating them with some primer. I then painted all of the window sills and the back door. By 4'ish I was whupped and out of things to paint, thankfully.
I hand watered the gardens and harvested a double mess of collard greens for the GAB (great aunt betsy) who came by for a visit before supper. I did find a beautiful ripe 'mater which a fruit rat had eaten down so I put out more poison last night. It had eaten the other poisons I have been putting out now for the past couple of nights. I hadn't seen any evidence of any in awhile but they are back once again and I'm not happy, oh well.
The garden is holding on with this last big rain and now the cool nights and the beans are almost ready to bloom again. The new lettuces are maturing as are the cucumber plants. Hopefully we will get some cukes before we leave in May. The tomato plants on the side garden are loaded with golf ball size fruit and we should have a ton to take with us in May as well. We cleaned up some taco meat we had frozen for our supper which we put over tortilla chips with cheese, sour cream, onions, tomatoes and lettuce and of course some taco sauce, delicious. I had a glass of fruit of the vine to accompany. After the cleanup we settled into the Fox News channel which seems to be about the only major MSM which is honest in it reporting until about 8 when I got sleepy. So I headed off to the shower and then some ALONE time on the bedroom TV until lights out at for me. I have no idea what time Nancy finally came to bed but its usually after midnight, oh well, LATER
