Friday

Well it sure turned out to be a beautiful day that started with a 7:30 wake up. The temps were right at 60* with bright sunshine and blue skies overhead. After our quiet times we decided to have a "mountain breakfast' of home grown eggs, sausage patties, grits and a slice of toast; I of course added a fresh jalapeno and a ripe tomato to mine. That held me until 5:30 when we decided to have supper. After our breakfast I headed out to check on the gardens then we got ready around 11o'clock for our hike to the top of the mountain.

We now can just about walk to the back road all in one pull without stopping so finally its a sign we are once again getting back into shape and when we do pause to catch our breath its quick; another sign we are recovering quickly and getting back into shape. We never saw anyone at the Browning's or next door at Roddy's despite an outside fire in their fire pit. We headed on up and across the face of the mountain and did run into Mike further up the road weed whacking around the communal well. We visited with him and then we saw his wife Nancy out doing some yard work at their cabin, so we visited with her as well. They seldom spend the night up here anymore in their beautiful cabin, which by the way is for sale and it has awesome views. We headed on back down and got back around 12:30, neither of us was hungry so I started weed whacking the yards and afterwards I fired up the riding mower. That kept me busy up to 4 PM.

We sat on the porch and read until it was time to start supper. Nancy snapped and strung a nice mess of 1/2 runner beans and I pulled 4 ears of corn from the small patch in the upper garden. I microwaved the ears and then cut the corn off the cob so Nancy could put 2 of the ears in the blender and pulverize it as she has trouble digesting corn. The corn was dewisheous and while not huge in size was just perfect with butter and salt. I planted Peaches and Cream variety which is a blend of yellow and white kernels.That's the first corn I've ever raised on this property.

While waiting for supper I sat on the back porch and read and for some reason I looked up into the backwoods and noticed what appeared to be the twin fawns we saw last week out by the mailboxes. They were just standing there in the woods watching me and stayed long enough for Nancy to observe them as well. They still have their spots as well. We got a heavy rain shower about suppertime and it really poured for about a 1/2 hour and dropped the temps down into the low 60's in just minutes, yikes we had to close the windows and Nancy donned her sweat clothes. Well that's about it for the day as we have been watching the track of the tropical storm which is headed for Florida. It looks now as it if will veer off westward and maybe miss land fall in our area as its projected to be a Cat 1 hurricane by the first of the week. We here in N.C. may get some heavy rain towards the end of next week, LATER