Well Tuesday started out quite chilly with temps in the upper 40's but tons of sunshine and blue skies, the faux fireplace was on for a couple hours before we headed out to run some errands off the mountain for several hours. I had started the morning with my usual before 6 roll out 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 for comfort and healings. On a sad note our builder for the cabin here who has been in horrible health for the past couple of years passed away last night from a heart attack. Ray Todd had been in a nursing home for many months and wasn't doing well and just a couple weeks ago we planned with some other friends who he had built their place, to visit him in Independence, Va. His funeral is scheduled for Friday and we will attend along with many folks out here on our mountain where he at one time lived. All others are holding with this post except our dear sweet friend and neighbor in Florida and Nancy's best friend, Carol has some terrible news about the pain in her jaw and will need constructive surgery to replace the jaw bone, wow. Very expensive to say the least.
I headed out to check on the gardens after stretching on the back porch and didn't notice any real new deer damage as they have been so destructive to several beds this summer. I did harvest several more tomato's mostly plum ones along with a few small numbin cucumbers. I now have more zucchini's to harvest as well. After a lite breakfast of fresh baked blueberry pound cake we headed out, first to Sparta and the library and I picked up several books as well as my old favorite LONESOME DOVE which came from another library. It it a huge read with over 800 pages and small print but I managed to knock out close to a 100 pages since we got home. I love this story despite some salacious parts which were real to the history of the time and areas of the old west. I just finished TOMBSTONE a true read on the old west which confirmed many of those women characters were into that profession to stay alive, anyhow the cattle drive is the main action theme of the book with all that goes on with those characters in their pursuit to achieve that end.
We next headed to Independence to visit a furniture store where we bought our great leather couches 20+ years ago to see about new couches for more space for when all of the family comes at one time next summer to celebrate my 80th. Nancy insists we need more sitting areas in the cabin so we can all sit together at one time and the best we came up with is to gain 1 seat at 4 grand with 2 new couches. I'm not in favor because the living space just doesn't have that much area for additional couches and chairs, plus we seldom all sit together and we have 8 seats at the table in addition to the couches and love seat we already have, oh well. When she makes up her mind its useless to change it.
Today we go to Elkin to check out furniture stores there and see if their prices are any better, one quote was for 8 K for 2 couches, but that was just too much to spend for the project, oh well. I like the store called Guynn's as those couches and love seat we bought years ago are still in good shape, because we only use them for 5 months out of the year, so we will check the stores below the mountain today and then do some shopping at Walmart and Lowes.
We came back and had a late lunch around 2'ish which really held us the rest of the day and evening except for a hand full of nuts with my glass of vino around 6'ish. After lunch I loaded up some tools and headed out to the road to fill in some pot holes in the gravel road which has become terrible on the hill, folks just don't know how to drive on this hill and cause their tires to spin out shallow holes which are so bumpy, oh well. After clearing out some loose gravel on our steep driveway I picked a quart of blueberries from our bushes and then piddled around in the gardens hand watering a couple areas which I'm trying to preserve.
We both are back to reading and Nancy sat on the deck reading in the sun light. Seems she is either too cold or too hot all of the time and I'm wondering if her meds is the cause, plus her tummy isn't right most of the time. We have to adjust our meals according to if we are leaving the cabin because of tummy issues and what combination of foods sent her to the pot, anyhow I'm thinking she should see a doctor about those issues when we get back to Florida this winter, oh well, LATER
