After a cup of HOT green tea for me and a cup of java for Nancy we did our quiet times. It was nearly 9:30 before we made our respective breakfasts. I had 2 dippy eggs over the 2 left over corn muffins while she had the boring oatmeal with banana and wild blue berries. Tomorrow that will be my fare as well as its palatable; but not nearly as tasty. I put a load of laundry in the washing machine and then hung it outside on the line. We decided at the last minute after checking the weather fore cast that Thursday is going to be a nicer day with more sunshine and a little warmer and no chance of snow in the fore cast; so we got ready to make our final trip to Galax, Va. for this year. We headed out on the Blue Ridge Parkway and stopped at one of the over lookouts to take a couple pictures. The wind cut through your clothing like a knife and we had plenty on as the wind chill was in the 20's. There was no sunshine and the bare trees added to the wintry look which made it feel even colder. We made a stop at a new 5 and 10 store in Galax and found nothing we couldn't live without.
Our next stop was at Wal-Mart where I had the truck serviced for our trip while Nancy shopped for some gifts for the grand babies. We also picked up a few groceries for our last get together at the cabin tomorrow night. We are having the old crew for a spaghetti supper and then a few games for the bragging rights of the gals vs the guys over the winter in Sequence. It should be a raucous event. We headed home around 1 PM and the snow flakes were evident as we headed back to the cabin. It was nearly 2 PM by the time we sat down to a late lunch of roast chicken on pumpernickel, Yeow my favorite!
After eating we decided when the snow flakes stopped we would head out. It was nearly 3 before it stopped so off we went; bundled up. You could barely see our faces and still they nearly froze off from the cold and wind. We saw no one on top of the mountain but did see the smoke from Joe and Jetta's chimney. We headed up to the Cahoons and Leslie's place before turning back down the road; I would have liked to walk up to the very top as it has a beautiful view. The wind was clocked at Grand Father Mountain last night at 106 mph and comes up the mountains to this area. The original owners who build on top use to complain about the wind being so ferocious they would lay on the floor at night thinking the windows were going to be blown out. No wonder they sold out and moved down off the mountain top. The leaves were knee deep in places as the wind had them piled up in the leeward side of the road. We continued on down the road past the old Todd Place and noticed the stone mason finished the stone work around the cabin. Wow the guy who bought the place has done a great job fixing it up.
Well its been a fun day with getting off of the hill, along with the snow flakes and the cold hike which made it even more pleasing to be back in the warm cabin, LATER
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