Well winter is here in the mountains for us flatland Floridians with temps down right cold helped by the brisk breeze. We did get lots of sunshine and blue skies but it was long pants all day long with a long sleeve shirt. When I don these clothes its winter time in Florida, oh well. The leaves are falling and being blown about as now most all of the trees are past peak. There are still a few trees with some color but mostly they are through for this year.
I started the day with my usual 6'ish rollout to my routines that start 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 seem to be holding with this post. I did after posting this ramble and checking on the world news and social media exchanges head out bundled up, to stretch on the back porch before walking around the property to get the blood circulating. It was down right cold, some where in the low 40's but the stiff breeze made it feel even colder. I did several laps around the yards checking on whats left, which isn't much and planning on what I wanted to accomplish outside today as we didn't have to go any where in the evening.
I did finish up coating the one backwoods garden with a couple loads of rotting pine needles I had stored over the summer from when we got here in May. I had removed them from the gardens and of course they had broke down and composted which hopefully will add good food for my next summers garden vegetables. I still have to weed whack down the remaining flower beds that still have some blooming zinnias and daisy's and some wild flowers. Neighbor Mary and Christine came by for a visit and were here for an hour or so. Nancy had clothes in the wash so I hung them outside on the line and it was a perfect day with the breeze and sunshine. Oh what a smell for them when being dried outside in the fresh air and sunshine.
We decided after a lite lunch to walk to the mailbox which has several hills and is about a mile each way. We stopped and visited with neighbor Mike for a few on the way out. He was up working on his recently renovated old cabin he purchased a few months back and now has it quite livable inside and ready for friends and visitors to stay in. It was very rustic and needed lots of work which is just up his ally when it comes to remodeling and fixer up.
I harvested the last of the beets the deer had eaten off the tops and they were delicious when roasted with carrots which we had for our supper along with some leftovers. We are cleaning out the freezers and tomorrow night we are having lots of the neighbors for a steak dinner and then games afterwards. I think we will have 11 counting us and I have about that many steaks in the freezer so that will help with freeing up space in case Caleb brings me some venison to take back to Florida.
After the supper clean up I settled into the last few chapters in RAVENOUS SEIGE the second book in son, Bobbys trilogy titled EPIC OF HAVEN and while I had a hard time in the first book this one is much more interesting with tons of action. I'm looking forward to the third book which we have at home in Florida and will attack it in a couple weeks once I get the gardens and yards squared away in a couple weeks, LATER
