Slept In,Made Jelly, Took a Hike, Planted Trees and Mowed

Wow, what a day. Nancy and I were still in slumber land when the phone rang at 8:40 AM. Carol B. called and woke us and talked for nearly an hour. It was sure good to snuggle with my wife after sleeping alone on Wednesday night. Nancy is doing fine and we're sure thankful for that. While she yapped with Carol I did a deer damage assessment(none once again), my quiet time and even had breakfast.

We took a long hike just before lunch and came back to a great fresh garden salad. After lunch we once again got out the pot and pans and made another batch of blackberry jelly. We had about 3 cups of juice already frozen from the last time so I squeeze out 4 more cups(froze 2 of them)of juice and we started the process. I kept things washed up while Nancy mixed the juice, sugar and sur-gel. It's really a messy job while dirtying lots of pots and pans.

We took a golf cart ride out to the mailbox and stopped off to visit with Grant and Shirley. They are up for a week at their cabin on vacation. After getting our mail we found a sweet thank you book from our youngest grand daughter, Annsley. There were several pictures with captions from her vacation. Nancy and I laughed and cried all in the same book. Jill, you and Bob did a great job putting this thank you together,We Love it!!!

After getting back to the cabin we decided we should plant some more small pine trees that separate our property and the "kennel/trailer park" next door. We dug up and planted 12 more pines along the driveway edge to help reduce the sight and sound from next door.

After dinner we decided it was a great time to mow the yard as it's a cool evening. Nancy relieved me at times as we are still mowing this yard with a push mower. It only took us about an hour. Afterwards I built a campfire, watered my lettuce and then we sat around the fire watching the trash heap burn. Well it was a great day with temp's not much over 75. Later, missing our families and especially grand daughters Ava and Annsley