Well Friday started out down right cold with the temps in the 30's and the wind kept it quite cold most all day until late evening when it finally died down. There was some ice on the roof of the cabin but no frost on the grasses. I started the day with my usual 6'ish rollout to my routines that begin with some quiet times after posting this ramble to honor Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. One of our neighbors is a new addition to that list Mike who is back in the hospital with kidney stones. Seems this is quite often an issue with him. He and his wife Linda were supposed eat supper with us when this attack occurred the night before. All the others are holding with this post and now Grant and Shirley were able to attend last nights get together at least for the eatin' part which is great to see he is getting stronger daily and eating better.
I headed out after posting this ramble and checking on the news and facebook posts to stretch on the back porch before walking the property in the cold and after a couple laps I decided to wait until it warmed up a little which it finally did around 10'ish, enough so I could work outside. I decided to take down the last patch I had a fence around which was some October beans growing. They actually came back after the deer one night inSeptember ate most of the leaves off the vines but not all the blooms and these matured enough to get a mess of beans. I spent the afternoon in the sun sitting in the driveway shelling the pods out of the wind which was nice and warm. The sun was bright and plentiful as was the deep blue skies but the wind still kept you with some outer wear on.
Nancy was in the kitchen baking pies and cobblers for the big supper. It turned out we were having 9 for supper instead of 11 who all came around 5:30 with several side dishes of salads, twice baked tatters, Texas toast, a pineapple and tatter dish and of course steaks on the grill. We had black raspberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream, custard and pumpkin pie and Shirley brought a layered pumpkin cake with a delicious icing and pecans on top for the desserts. Needless to say we sent most of everything home with guests except enough for another meal or two. We still have more meat to serve with other friends before heading back a week from Sunday as we try to eat down the freezers. We leave on Nov 2nd this year so tomorrow will be our last Sunday church meeting.
After the semi clean up we played 5 rounds of chicken foot dominos and it was a hoot with Mary beating me out on the final hand as it was getting close to 9. I was winning the whole game until the last round. After they all left we finished the clean up and settled into the World Series first game and it was tied when I hit the shower and then the sack around 10'ish and was out until 1'ish when Nancy woke me up with her snoring and bathroom issues, oh well. This morning I head to Sparta for some pickle ball around 10'ish with 4 other players, hopefully it will warm up like yesterday and the wind dies down. Tomorrow the forecast is for rain the next couple of days and more this coming week. If it stays as cold as forecasted we may see some white stuff, LATER
