Well Tuesday was a busy work day which I love doing after a 5'ish rollout to start the day. I did my quiet moments to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and then lifted up several by name for comfort and healing. All at this time are holding but one is being operated on this morning to remove part of her colon, keep Diane in your prayers for recovery. I headed out before breakfast as Nancy was doing her quiet time as I was about to finish my morning peruse of the the internet, so while she honored Jesus during her quiet time I checked on the gardens and yards.
Every thing looked good despite the ground still quite wet from the past couple of days heavy rain falls. It sprinkled a little at different times during the day and looked like heavy rain coming but we stayed basically rain free with tons of clouds and sunshine at times. The temps were nice to start the day but eventually warmed up enough to turn the a/c on at bed time, plus Nancy is afraid of the bear issues in the area and we have yet to see one.
After a large breakfast to use up the last of the rib eye steak along with a couple of eggs and a avocado dripped with some olive oil and cracked pepper plus a jalapeno pepper and piece of sourdough bread, which by the way held me the rest of the day until supper time around 6'ish. Our old friend Andy Dalton blessed us with a couple nice packs of fresh crappie filets and so we thawed one pack out for supper which had a dozen small filets, so we had them as well as some dried October beans which Nancy had cooking for a couple hours along with a salad made from our first pickings of lettuce from the garden, yikes was that ever a fine country meal. I love dried beans but they tear Nancy up so its seldom we ever have them and their was enough fish leftover for my lunch today on a sandwich. We still have salt water fish in the freezer that neighbor Andrew blessed us with from Florida, which we were suppose to eat when Bobby was here, oh well.
I did harvest two full colanders of butter crunch lettuce leaves and cleaned them for the salad bowl with a couple sacks for later salads after getting back from leveling out some of the ruts from the gully washer rain storms the past couple of days and while at it I trimmed several low hanging tree limbs on the road out to the mail box. I did stop and pick up a golf cart load of sawed up wood by Mikes place as he has tons of it along the road already for the campfire. I piddled around in the gardens hoeing and trying to get some air to the roots of the veggies as this clay like soil holds moisture. Hopefully we can go another day with out rain and let it dry out.
I did get my birthday present early from my son Bobby who bought we a small gas powered 12 in chainsaw which came in a box and no instructions on how to fit the blade and chain to it. What I didn't realize was the chain brake was on and thats 's why I had a difficult time aligning it up to fit. Finally I realized why and soon made the alignment and it looks like thats all I will need for what I do around the cabin. My old chain saw still runs but I had to borrow neighbor Gerald's saw when Bobby and I tried to cut up a power pole for the garden, so now I have a modern one for small jobs, plus the old one which needed fresh gas and oil as it has sat all winter in the basement, oh well.
Well after supper I tuned into the NHL and the Florida Panthers were on their way to win the Stanley Cup as they were ahead 3-0 going into the final period and the Ray's were losing going into the 9th so after a shower I called it a night and hit the sack at 10'ish, LATER
