Well we are getting close enough to leaving here that a count down will begin in a couple of days. Two more Sundays before we say "so long" until next summer. Any how Wednesday after a chilly start turned out to be rather warm with t-shirt and shorts temps with brilliant blue skies and sunshine. I started the day with my usual 6'ish rollout to my routines that begin with some quiet moments after posting this ramble 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.
I did head out to stretch on the back porch before walking the property and just enjoying the ambiance with all of the trees surrounding the place in difference shades of colors as well as noticing tons of leaves that have already fallen. I did blow some leaves in the afternoon out of the driveway. After a breakfast of bacon, egg with slice tomato and a jalapeno on souer dough toast I headed out to work outside in the gardens getting them ready for winter and again for next year planting when we come back in May/June. I dug and hauled two golf cart loads of topsoil I found that had washed down from the top of the mountain when we have those torrential rains and the dirt has been standing in one area for over 30 years. It was good soil so I spread lots of it in those beds that had been sown with wild flower seeds earlier in the summer. The beds that I weed whacked down I just place lots of pine needles and leaves to keep the weeds and grasses down. I still have to weed eat those beds I covered with topsoil as some are still showing blooms from different flowers. That kept me busy until the afternoon when we took off on a hike to the top of the mountain. We visited with several who were out and about working in their flower beds and walking their dogs for quite a spell before heading back down the steep backwoods trail.
After the hike we had a lite lunch of some leftovers from last weeks many dishes and for supper I grilled some marinated chicken breast over a bed of salad. We did take a golf cart ride during the afternoon as well, checking out the property behind us looking for some bear scat but never found it. We did see where the deer and turkeys ate up all of Neighbor Gerald corn he had placed along both backwoods roads. We then headed out to the mailbox before coming home and taking the laundry off the clothes line. It was a perfect day for hanging sheets as we washed up the bedding from our last weeks company and the smell of clean sheets dried in the sunlight is awesome.
We tuned into our local church in Florida for Wednesday evening service and then I watched the speech Erica Kirk gave when she accepted Charlie's Medal of Freedom on his birthday and it was a tear jerker talk. She is such a brave and courageous person to carry on his legacy and his battle to educate the youth for Freedom in America as well as lead folks to the Lord. He truly is a martyr for GOD and Country, LATER
