Well its been work non stop all day that starts with a 5'is rollout. I do my usual routines of some quiet moments to honor my lord, Jesus, then give thanks for another day and to lift up several who are less fortunate than myself for comfort and healing. I'm so blessed I can still work from sun up to sun down although I'm feeling it in my muscles each morning and just before a hot shower at bed time. I'm starting to see the affects of all those muscles aches as the outside property is taking shape with all of the garden and flower beds worked over and up and ready for planting.
I did plant some Swiss chard and onion set as well as yellow squash and a Rosemary plant and then transplanted 4 tomato plants in the upper garden. Some of the bedding plants were in small 4 and 6 packs so I moved them up into larger pots for a week or so before setting them out in the garden proper. I did a lot of weeding and I can feel it in my fingers and hands as well as a lot raking and hoeing so the arms and back muscles from bending over feel the ache as well. Thankfully my work horse golf cart with a bed in the back is such a life saver as it maneuvers through the yards not only hauling my tools but any and all debris from the gardens where I deposit it in an area in the upper woods for use again next fall on my beds. That cart along with my gum boots have been a great investment as the dew is always wet in the morning and it would ruin any kind of shoe and the cart has paid for itself in saving me many steps up and down this hill, when using a wheelbarrow which I did for many years before purchasing the cart, oh well.
Nancy was in the house as she has very little resistance to either heat or cold. She had the heat on once again whereas I love to cool temps which is great for working outside. It did shower off and on a couple times during the day which set me back but we did see the sunshine for the first time today as its been damp, cool and foggy. Severe storms were east of us which dropped the temps down in the evening and over night and produced some high winds and its still blowing this morning. We ate good for the day with chicken on a bed of lettuces I brought from my Florida garden along with some kale. I'll soon have kale here as a couple of volunteer kale plants made it through the winter and the seeds have sprouted new seedlings. I'm a lover of leafy greens which are super foods for the body. We had brats for supper with fresh corn on the cob and a fried sweet tater. I watched a little of the Ray's game until shower time and then it was lights out for me around 10'ish.
Today I will sow some zinnias seeds I saved from last year as well as do some weed eating and some honey do's. There is always something to do here all of the time. Last evening during supper I'm always looking out into the large back yards which has several garden and flower beds and saw 5 wild turkeys in the yards. They were huge and I think we didn't see any last year so that was a first. Still no sign of the bear which has been spotted at several folks cabins who live on our road. We ordered a loud fog horn to carry with us when we hike the mountain that should help with scaring it away, LATER
