Well Monday started out with overcast skies and quite chilly with a breeze, but by mid morning the sun broke through and the blue skies appeared and it turned out to be a shorts and tee shirt afternoon and by evening it was still in the low 60's. It was a work day for me which I surely love here as I can be outside in the fresh air that no one has ever breathe before and I love it. After a hearty breakfast around 9ish which held me until 5'ish, but first I did my morning routines after rolling out around 6'ish to some quiet moments to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort, safe travels and for healing. All made it home safely and others are healing and hopefully getting stronger and better.
I did my early morning hike around the property after stretching on the back porch checking, on whats left in the gardens and flower beds. The deer were in all of them but there isn't a whole lot left except for some half runner beans on poles they haven't eaten off the tops yet and the jalapeno pepper plants which are sort of hidden in the upper garden. One patch still has a fence around it where I'm still growing October beans in various staging of maturing. I have to wait until the green pods turns lite brown and speckled with red which gives the inside white beans the color of a birds egg which is why we always called them "bird egg" beans. They are the best bean ever and when cooked they turn brown much like a pinto, but only better.
I had a sausage patty with some grits and eggs in a bowl with cut up jalapeno and some of the small tomatoes which is all I have left from the gardens and a slice of sourdough bread with home made black raspberry jelly we made from our berry patch. That held me for the next 8 hours when I ate some left over smashed taters with sauerkraut from a couple days back, delicious to say the least. I headed out to work in the gardens weed eating the marigold bed down and then hauling a load of last year pine needles I had stored in the woods to cover the bed and then I hauled another two loads of the pine needles to cover the backwoods garden patch and the hollyhock patch which the deer eat every night when there is the smallest evidence of any growth.
I worked on the weed eater restringing it and then decided the upper garden near the driveway needed some work as the half runner bean poles were standing only with ropes after being blown down a month or so ago. I harvested what beans were still growing which wasn't many and cut up the vines and left them to rot and compost in that garden. I had to hide the jalapeno pepper plants which are still producing with the poles or the dad gum deer with eat them down overnight. Speaking of deer we saw several during our daylight trip to Sparta last evening for our Bible classes and then more again on the way home around 9'ish. I watched a little of the baseball and football games until 10'ish then hit the shower and the sack as I hadn't done any real physical work except hike while our company was here for 10 days, so I was whupped and in bed by 10:30. Not sure when Nancy decided to come to bed but its usually around midnight, LATER
