Saturday

Well it was another get ready to leave for Northern Virginia day as we were still catching up from our company that left Thursday night. After our quiet time Nancy made buckwheat pancakes with a banana and wine berries in the batter, wow were they ever good. We took a hike around 10 AM and came back to settle into small chores. We were still washing clothes and the rain held off so we could hang them outside on the line, wow what a clean smell from drying outside. I picked a few wine berries and put them in the freezer as they still haven't ripen to their fullest. I'm hoping to get enough to make at least a gallon of vino but if not I will settle for blackberry, anyhow they should be in by the time we get back from Virginia.

They have moved the surgery for Paw Paw up to Monday morning and we are planning to see him Sunday evening before and then again afterwards on Monday. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers as he is 83 years young. We will be staying with youngest sister Dee in Woodstock then drive down to Vienna and catch the metro into the D.C. area. Its been 20 years since we've been down into that area of the country and its wall to wall people and the traffic must be horrendous.

We headed over to the Dalton Farm on Saturday evening for a cookout, corn hole and eventually Sequence. The smoked venison was awesome and the baby backs looked great but since I've been eating high on the hog this past week I passed on the ribs and stayed with the deer tenderloin. That is absolutely the best tasting meat ever!!!

The gals put it on us in Sequence again and we had a new player as well. Eric, Mechelle's brother was visiting along with Dylan from Raleigh and they still somehow beat us in the best of 7 games. We headed out around 9:30 as we had lots to do before pulling out Sunday morning. We hung extra bags around the cabin in hopes it would keep the deer out of the gardens while we were gone so it looks like the Wal-Mart shoppers passed through here with all the white bags flapping in the breeze. LATER