Well heat and humidity is back and its starting to feel like July in the afternoon. It does get pleasant by late afternoon and evening to where its bearable to be outside as is the early mornings, but mid day its very hot, oh well. In about 50 some days we will hopefully be in the mountains and I'm looking forward to not only the temps but the landscape as well.
I started the day with my usual 5'ish rollout to my routines that begin with some quiet moments to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name and now Nancy is having some health issues, so keep her in your prayers as well. Everyone else seems to be holding with this post. I headed out to the Rec on my bike for close to two hours of pickle ball play and the crowds have really thinned out to just 9 players this morning, whereas we were having close to 20 on any given MWF mornings. Lots of folks have left for up north where its starting to warm up.
I came home and piddled around in the gardens and yards hand watering and harvesting the tomato's which have suddenly decided to ripen, so I'm back to giving them away once again, especially the black cherry ones. They are delicious and are ripening as I make this post it seems. I'm harvesting a couple dozen almost daily along with the larger ones which the fruit flies don't ruin. I'm dusting them with Sevin dust but they still seem to find a way to destroy them, oh well.
We headed to Lowes after filling up at Sam's Club which the price jumped back up to 3 bucks again. I was hoping with the new era of drill baby drill would start to bring it back down, oh well. Lets hope the tariffs work out for America and put more cash in our pockets or at least stop the ripping off of us on the trade deals. I think Trump and DOGE are exposing so much waste and corruption that eventually after some short term hurt America will become solvent again.
We bought some lumber and two doors for the last of the remodels on the house here in Florida, hopefully for years, except for some general maintenance. Its been big this last year of spending tons on the house and yards and hopefully that will hold Nancy to her HGTV remodels, oh well. I chilled until it was time to head over to the Botbyl's as they were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with us and the Nymark's. Nancy bought a cake and the Nymark's brought a bottle of champagne and Dan had fillets on the grill as well as fried sweet taters and a salad. Afterwards we played almost two complete games of hand, knee and foot, which we guys won the first round so big we never played the 4th hand and the girls barely won the third round in the second game as time was running out for us and the Nymark's, as they were heading to Orlando early this morning to pick up their daughter and hubby and spending the night there. I'm sure they are on the road now as I make this post.
Well we got back to the house around 9:30 and it was shower time for me and then a few minutes of ALONE on the tv before lights out around 10'ish. Today or this morning we have to be in Tampa at 9 for the twins baseball game and then back home for another Lowes stop for a couple items we couldn't get yesterday, LATER
