Well Thursday was a mixture of shopping and work but the temps were great for both as I started the day with the heat on and eventually the cabin warmed up enough we could turn the heat off. I think with everything inside being closed up for 7 months everything was still giving off coldness since we've only been here for two days and its been chilly, damp, overcast with fog and rain at times. I started the day with my usual 5'ish rollout to my routines which 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 are holding with this post.
We had a breakfast of avocado with olive oil, poached egg with some grits to start the gastric juices flowing before getting ready to head out to Sparta for mainly bedding veggies and flower plants and we found plenty at the local meat market which is like a general store that carries about anything you want as well as tons of bedding plants. Well we loaded up 3 large trays of them starting with tomato's 2 types, peppers two types, Swiss chard, lettuces 2 types, Rosemary, parsley, cucumbers, yellow squash and several varieties of flowering plants and some onion sets as well as some honey and beautiful red ripe tomato's for sandwiches. We next headed to Food Lion for a few items and a rotisserie chicken for our supper and enough left over for another meal or two as well as a couple frozen pizzas and some avocado's which we love and they are so good for you.
The mountains were covered in fog and we hit a little lite rain on the way home. It quit raining so I worked on two other garden beds and then brought out the electric rotor tiller and worked up 6 beds which worked up a sweat in me. That investment is a life saver for me as I used to do it all with a shovel and a hoe. I did find a couple volunteer tomato's plants in my old compost pile along with a couple kale plants which I transplanted them into pots in hopes they make for the garden in a few days. I did sow zinnias seeds from last years crop in two beds as well as marigolds seeds in the campfire circle bed which always looks great when they are in full bloom.
That kept me busy right up to 4'ish. Nancy did transplant the flowering bedding plants in the circle driveway which will look great once in bloom as the salvia was red, white and blue. Great patriotic colors. Well there were lots of other small honey do's as well as other gardening chores and by supper time I was worn out. Nancy microwaved a sweet tater then fried it and along with the rotisserie bird and fresh broccoli we ate well. We did get a lite rain and drizzle for an hour or so after dark. I watched the Rays vs Houston thru 6 and it was a tied game when I called it a night around 10:30. I'm sure feeling these worked muscles all over my body but loving the fresh cool temps and the quietness of the area as we are surrounded with mountain laurel in full bloom, LATER
