Well Friday was an overcast day after a rainy night and then rain again last evening and its raining rather steady as I make this post. We were in a drought a couple days ago, but no longer as it rained for the past couple of days and nights, oh well. I sure hope this tropical depression/hurricane stays away from land as we do not want a repeat of last years event when we had trees down and no power, oh well.
I started the day with my usual 6'ish rollout 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 healing. All are holding with this post, but some with more severe health issues than others. I headed out after stretching on the back porch to check on whats left of the gardens. I do have half runner beans to harvest as well as kale and some herbs. I did cut off some dead flower heads and put them out to dry on the work table under the back porch. I did cut up some small branches and limbs around the yards and hauled them down to my new burn pile.
Nancy washed some sheets and we put them out to dry on the clothesline when we did get some sunshine for about an hour. The rain held off until late evening, despite dark rain clouds so we hiked the mountains and then it was read the rest of the afternoon on the porch. I'm reading another great non fiction story on the torpedoing of the Lusitania that took nearly1200 lives by the Germans in 1915 which brought the USA into WWI. Its titled DEAD WAKE by Eric Larson. Awesome read.
I had started the gastric juices flowing with eggs, grits and a cut up jalapeno pepper with tomato in a bowl and a slice of sourdough bread with homemade black raspberry jelly we had made in June when the grands were here, delicious and that held me until 1'ish when I snacked with some grapes and peanuts. We were heading to the Frankis Family farm for supper at 5:30 so Nancy had made a bowl of tatter salad to share.
We had baked chicken thighs, butternut squash and sweet tatters baked and mixed together as well as wax beans from their garden and Nancy's tatter salad, delicious and afterwards we played hand, knee and foot. The guys were dominate last evening for a change but first we checked out how the new house was coming along. Jake is a great builder and is doing most all the work himself. Its really coming to life with the siding on now and painted a dark gray. It was after 9 when we finished the game and headed home in the rain and it hasn't stopped, oh well. Natalia their 9 month baby is walking with a toy and is quite the smiley baby, LATER
