Thursday

Well what a busy day after a cool start this morning with temps into the high 40's. It was very windy but there was lots of sunshine. After our quiet times and a piece of apple pie with milk for breakfast I ventured out to check on the seedlings and the garden. Walt called and said he would be here around 11Am to finish the plumbing job we started last evening so I started to cut out all the dead briar's in the wine berry bushes and trimmed some hanging brush that had started to grow out into the road in our driveway.

After Walt left a little after 11 we headed over to Helen's to take her a couple pieces of pie and to gather some of the many thousand of pumpkins left in the field to rot. We gathered about a dozen then headed over to Eddie and Kimberly's for a visit. We hadn't seen her new paint horse and while the girls looked after the horses I scooped up 8 sacks of horse manure for my blueberry bushes. We visited with them until about 12:30 before heading home for a bite of lunch. After lunch we got ready for our one and only hike of the day and was it ever a pleasant walk. The wind made it just cool enough to wear long pants and keep the bugs away. After the hike I headed out to the back yard to dig dirt for the flower beds around the fire circle. I dug and hauled 3 golf cart loads before it was time to get ready to head to Sparta.

We first stopped at Hawks fruit and vegetable stand to pick up some produce to make salads for this weekend. We(the church) are cooking and preparing 2 meals for the big concert stars this weekend at our church so Nancy is making a brown rice recipe and preparing 2 salads. We then headed to Lowe's grocery to pick up some other supplies. We were sadden to learn a nice young man, 19 years of age who worked at Lowe's took his life last evening by hanging himself in his room. Such a waste as he was well liked in the community by his peers and employer.

After shopping we headed over to Gerald and Kay's place where she had made a scrumptious lasagna and Nancy brought a salad. Mechelle made a Pioneer Woman cake which was very tasty as well. After clearing away the table we had a rowdy game of Sequence with the boys at one time ahead by 3 games to none; but the gals rallied and scored 4 games in a row to win the match. Yikes what a come back, congratulations gals. Well we headed home around 8:30 with a full belly once again and it looks as if we are back in town tomorrow night for a barbecue dinner fundraiser at the high school. Enclosed are a few pumpkin pics, blue skies and a little tree color as well as the new paint horse. LATER