Well we are no longer in a drought as its been raining off and on for over an inch of rain yesterday and then again last evening and over night. At times it has poured like a gully washer. I did notice yesterday lots more leaves have donned the yards and the roads as we made a trip to Sparta for some groceries for shut ins and I made a library stop for some new reads.
I started the day with a before 6 roll out to my usual routines since we are company free once again, that begin with some quiet moments to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. All are holding that we know of, but a couple are in serious need for a miracle of healing. We bought some extras for a couple families who are hurting; one Nancy cooked and we delivered it hot yesterday afternoon and for the other family it is frozen until we take it with us Sunday to church.
I piddled around in the gardens checking on the deer damage from overnight and they got a taste of Swiss chard for the first time this summer and ate it down to the roots, so I added a couple extra ropes across the fence in hopes to thwart them from jumping into the patch and if they do maybe they will get tangled up and fall and break a leg(only hoping that will happen), oh well. There is so much browse in the woods and now acorns everywhere, but no, they have to eat my gardens. Anyhow I'm still getting blooms on the zucchini's and even gave away a couple and have a couple more that need eating.
We ate a mountain breakfast of eggs, sausage and buckwheat pancakes for a change. We haven't been able to find that flour anywhere and saw it the other day at the cheese factory in W. Jefferson and bought a sack. The meal held me all day long until supper when we cleaned up the salmon, pasta and broccoli leftovers. Its starting to get dark much earlier now as the sun moves down behind the trees surrounding the cabin. Its definitely Fall but the temps have stayed rather mild for a change. The tropical storms heading this way may bring us some severe weather once again next week, so I'll get some extra gas for the generator just in case we lose power like last year. At least we will be ready in case it comes this far west to the mountains, oh well.
The Ray's lost again and I tuned into the first half of the NFL before hitting the shower and reading until lights out for me at 10:30, LATER
