It was another North Carolina morning with a coolness and stillness that can only be found in the mountains. My how much we yearn for mornings like the one we had this AM. The birds(robins, wrens and blue jays just to name a few were trying to out do the other with their songs. The gentle breeze made the air feel colder than the 50 degrees at 7 AM..... After a quick trip around the yard and gardens with my steaming cup of hot green tea(I quit drinking coffee a few years ago and turned to Earl Greys) I was happy to find no deer damage. There is a worm however; that is having a picnic every night with one of my cherry tomato plants which is loaded with about 2 dozen green tomato's...... The cool morning forced us both inside for our quiet time. I sometime use Ron Hutchcraft's web site for many of my morning meditations......After a hearty breakfast of buckwheat pancakes, eggs and King syrup(I remember using this syrup when I was but a small boy; as a matter of fact it was once distributed in a little bucket with a picture of a lion on it. I always will remember picking up "molly " grubs and placing them in one of these King syrup buckets)." Enough remembering back 55 + years......Nancy and I took a long walk to the top and then down a side of the mountain we hadn't walked in year. Boy was it steep, but the cool air made for a pleasant hike.....After a lunch of potato soup(leftover from last night) and peanut butter crackers with a slice of raw onion. UGH!!!Sounds awful but try it(and Nancy did and she was surprised at how good it tasted) it is a comfort food for me; as Nancy finds mayo,pickles and lettuce on a sandwich is comfort food for her.......Jill (our daughter-in-law) wrote to say Annsley(9 months) is crawling everywhere and that she is fast, so there is a concern about the steep stairs in the cabin. So I put the trusty table saw to work and whipped(4 hours) out 2 sets of safety gates; 1 for the downstairs and 1 in case she tries to climb up the stairs..... We got a sad but not unexpected phone call telling us that Aunt Peggy(my age) is terminal with cancer and only has 1-2 days at the most to live. She has battled this for a couple of years....After dinner(supper) we took another walk to the top and saw Mike and Nancy Carmichael, who we haven't since September. They have a beautiful real log home on top. As we walked further along the top we ran into Bill and Cindy Leslie who we haven't seen for over a year or more. We talked as fast as we could(it seemed) trying to catch up on all the latest about each others families. They live full time in Raleigh where he is a T.V.anchorman. Well better go for now as we have a trip planned for tomorrow. Later, missing all of our family and especially our grand daughters. We just got a concerned phone call that our neighbor Ray Todd is in the Elkin hospital because of abdominal pain.
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