Well the day started out with partly cloudy skies and a cold temperature of 40 degrees. After our quiet time and a breakfast of oatmeal and a banana I ventured out to do some raking of leaves. Yelp, once again I started in the "outback" yard as this was my second raking in this area in less than a week. Nancy eventually came out to help the last hour or so before our house guests arrived. It was a little after noon when we heard the gravel on the driveway and by then it had warmed up to nearly 55 degrees. Nancy had a made a beef barley vegetable soup on Sunday and did that ever taste good on this cool day for lunch. She also had bought ham and turkey lunch meat, along with the soup it made for a sumptuous lunch. It was so good and filling we didn't eat supper until nearly 7 PM.
We let our lunch settle before heading out on a long hike to the top. Our guests,Jerry and Becky fell in love with this area right away. We hiked all the way to the top and the sunshine made for great picture taking.They were enthralled with the leaves that were left on the trees and the view from the top of the mountain. Once again downtown Winston-Salem was visible from the top. They so enjoyed the crunching of the leaves as we walked along the woodland trails.We got back around 4 PM and I built a huge bonfire. We sat around and enjoyed its warmth until nearly dark when Nancy decided maybe it was time to start supper. She put some potatoes in the oven and I put some marinated chicken breasts on the grill. Along with a great salad we sat down to eat around 7 PM. The left over cheesecake came later during the Sequence match.
After supper Jerry and Becky insisted on washing the dishes before we got ready to play Sequence.Well I must say the first 7 games belonged to the gals at 5-2 however they were gracious enough to stop with that match and agreed to play a single game to decide a winner of one game takes all. They went along with that idea and the guys won that game; so we were at one match all. We then offered to play them in a rubber match game of a single game but they insisted the best of 5 games and we won 3-1. So even though they won 13 games to our 12 games we guys won the match. GUYS WIN!!!!
It was after 11 PM before we suspended play as they headed off to bed and we had to take our showers. I finished up on the MNF game and the Redskins looked about as bad as the Buc's in their loss to the Eagles.
This morning found us getting up around 7:30. We had some really great coffee cake for breakfast Becky made and brought with them. YUMMM! We headed out around 10 AM and stopped at Mountain Dreams Realty and met with the owner Paula Pressnell. She has at one time or another listed most of the real estate on our mountain and is quite knowledgeable of the area and the different type of lifestyle "mountain living" presents to those who are seeking to adjust here even if only seasonable. We did a grand tour of downtown Sparta visiting several shoppes, stores and eventually winding up at Brown's Restaurant for lunch. The food was excellent and very filling. Thanks Jerry and Becky for lunch.
It was starting to rain as we headed out of town. We showed them the only Catholic Church in town as well as our Cornerstone Church building before heading back o Glade Valley. We learned just this morning that Mt.Mom's brother Joe had listed about half of his property with a real estate agent. We stopped and drove to the top of his property as they(Jerry and Becky) are dreaming some day to live here in the mountains. The rain is steady on the tin roof causing Jerry to get sleepy and we can hear him snoring from upstairs. I can barely keep my eyes open as I write this post at 4:15 in the afternoon. LATER
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