Well the morning started out with me a little later than usual, actually sleeping in to nearly 7 AM. The drips have been reduced near nothing as we had no real rain last night. After my quiet time and a bowl of oatmeal I ventured out to check the gardens and found no new deer damage. There was a very heavy dew this morning with temps down into the 50's and the roof was very wet and slippery. By 10 AM the roof began to dry as the sun light finally began to show on the damaged roof. Andy came shortly after letting him know the roof was dry enough to work on without sliding off. It took us about an hour to take out the damaged piece and replace it.

After we finished my roof Andy and I went over to our "mountain moms" house to check on her roof. Seems a couple shingles were flipped up by the strong storm the other day. After checking out her roof I worked up an area for her to plant the tomato, basil and oregano plants I brought for her from Florida. Nancy and dug some wild flowers out of her woods area that were beautiful. The spider wort and coreopsis were very healthy looking, so we planted two huge boxes of them in the circle flower bed. We also planted 24 annuals while waiting for Andy to arrive.

I spent the afternoon fixing some broken fence around the lower garden, hoeing and pulling weeds while Nancy got supper ready. I grilled a couple marinated chicken breast crusted with oregano and thyme, yumm were they ever tasty, we also had black beans and rice with a little jalapeno pepper on mine as well as a little cilantro and garden salad. After supper we took off on our first hike to the top of the mountain. The fog was once again coming in and enveloping any view off the mountain, we did see our old friend Helen and her cat, Teddy who likes to follow us on our walk on top. On the way back down we ran into Ray and Audine and learned they were in the process of moving across the mountain to his sisters house. The winters are just to rough for them on getting in and out of our road. We will certainly miss them them but they won't be to far away. We got back just as American Idol was coming on and clearly think Lee is the best of the 3 singers tonight. Well its been a busy day and a great burden was lifted when we got the roof fixed. Thanks again to our friend, Andy "roof man" Dalton, LATER