Well Monday was another blistering hot and muggy day with temps in the middle 90's and blazing sunshine, whats with this in May. I started the day much the usual with a 5'ish 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 now including myself with a blocked ear. All are holding with this post and I was at the VA's for an ear cleaning which didn't take completely, so I'm back later in the week for more procedures. Its strange how as older I get I make so much ear wax and I did a no no, by trying to clean it out with a q-tip which only pushed it further into the ear canal, oh well I'll eventually learn to use only the solution and a syringe.
I did ride out to the Rec around 7:30 on by bike and got in a good hour plus of pickle ball play with a couple decent players for close to an hour, but later mainly B players arrived which slowed down the play so I headed home to work in the gardens before it got too hot. I took out the electric rotor tiller which has been an great investment for turning the garden which I use to do by hand with a shovel that took for days. Now I can turn the whole garden(s) over in just a couple hours and I did that until Nancy yelled for me to stop because my shirt was dripping sweat while she hung a load of laundry on the clothesline and she was washed out by the heat. I'm in a little better shape than her but I was ready to give it a rest or at least get out of the sun now that the big ok is no longer there for shade.
After washing off with the hose I change out of my sweat soaked clothes and headed into the a/c which has run almost non stop in the afternoon. At least it does cool a little over night to where the morning aren't too bad, but come mid morning until late evening its now brutal with heat and humidity. Only 7 more days and we will feel the difference dramatically and I'm looking forward to all the work outside and being in much cooler temps. We spoke with Stevie our dear friend in the mountains and he was leaving to come back to Seminole due to an issue with his home a/c which was on the blink again. We were hoping to get together for a couple days when we arrived at the cabin, but both he and Sheri will be up around the 4th of July with family members for a couple of weeks.
Well after breakfast for supper, we wanted to clean out some frozen biscuits, sausage patties so we had basically what we usually get on the road at McDonald's which is a sausage biscuit with cheese and of course we added fresh ground horseradish to ours which is a must with sausage. After the cleanup I headed out to hand water what a few green plants were still alive which was the Thai basil plant and the 5 kale and 5 collards plants in the back yard gardens; but the side garden patch still has a couple volunteer tomato plants that are still some what green with a few 'maters and of course the carrots which are growing nicely. I'll take out the patch later this week and take the green 'maters with us to the cabin next week and then harvest the carrots and then rotor till this patch.
After supper I next hand watered all of the front planter shrub and plants before finishing up in the back yard with the new sod which has just about covered the bare spot where the big oak once stood. I headed in and to the shower and then some MLB before lights out at 10 for me. No pickle ball today as we have to be in Tampa for grand son Gabe's 8th grade graduation ceremony and then its back home after a stop at Sam's Club for birthday dinner items for when we celebrate daughter Amy's 42nd big day on Thursday evening with a family get together. I don't think Bobby and family will make it as they are so busy and out of town on business, oh well. I got down all of the items from the attic that is needed for packing up the kitchen stuff as well as the suitcases so that ordeal starts almost daily now until I load the truck on Monday evening, LATER
