Thursday

Well as you can tell this post is nearly a day late because we lost our Internet service for nearly 24 hours straight, oh well its strange when just a few years ago we never had a computer or access to the Internet and now when you lose your connection it feels like you have a lost a friend.

Thursday was a busy day especially with the grand babies. The morning started out with our 6:30 AM wake up then our quiet time before the kiddos awakened and came down the stairs. I fired up the grill and cooked bacon and sausage to accompany our eggs, leftover 'taters and toast, Yummy was that ever good eatin' and that held me until suppertime when I fired up the grill again and made chicken fried deer steak rolled in flour and cooked in olive oil then I made a gravy from the dripping. We had Jasmine rice and cooked carrots to go with that and Nancy made a fresh blackberry cobbler for dessert.

After breakfast I took the kiddos up to the top of the mountain on the golf cart to visit with Zeke and Ms. Jetta. They had a grand time throwing the stick for Zeke as well as swinging, reading the words on the colored rocks she had on her patio table and of course picking flowers. We said our good bye's then headed back down the mountain  looking for newts and once again saw a large doe standing in the road. Bob and I decided to take the kiddos over to "mountain moms" pond so they could fish. I dug some fishing worms and we loaded up the truck and headed out. Just as we arrived Ms. Helen's riding mower went on the blink as the battery cable shorted out burning the cable in to. She was down for the day with her tractor being disabled.

We fished for just a few minutes as there was a large storm approaching but we caught a fish for each kid and then they touched it and we threw it back into the pond. We stopped and picked a few wild blackberry's that are everywhere along side her pond. Both kiddos picked and ate a large handful and Gabe wore his all over his face. After the berry picking we headed for home and Gabe took a 2 hour nap, so the rest of us chilled on the back porch reading until it was time to head out to the creek for one last time this summer. We took the kiddos in the golf cart down to the creek and they played in the water, threw rocks and then each of them enjoyed the swing that goes out over the creek. We headed home and stopped to visit with Russ, Linda and their 2 dogs who loved up on the kiddos. We needed to start home as it was time to start supper as Bobby wanted to head out for Florida around 7PM.

Well they got away right around 7 as planned after a dewisheous supper and tub time for the kiddos. Wow it sure was quite around here after they left so we decided to take a hike to the the top of the mountain. That was my first hike since injuring the knee the first week of June and it felt good to be able to put some pressure on it. I took my time coming down and I think by taking it slowly I will gradually get back to being able to do normal activities. After the hike we headed in to watch the tube as the Internet was down so after my shower I read until it was lights out, LATER