Thursday Morning

Well Wednesday was the start of the high humidity season and much warmer temps; we now have the a/c back on with the windows closed, yuck. I like the fresh air but it seems the warm, muggy conditions will probably be here until next October; so I'm thinking the mountains are calling my name. The morning started out much the usual with the roosters next door crowing around 5:30, then a few quiet moments and a lite breakfast before pedalling out to the rec for a couple hours of pickle ball. I was a little stiff from the 5 hours of play on Tuesday and so were the others guys who played in the tournament as none of them showed up today. We had a good turn out with 2 courts going most of the morning even though 4 of the other guys took the day off.

I stopped off at the library for a new read by Tess Gerritsen on the way home. She is quite the story teller and keeps you interested with page turner novels. I watered the gardens then picked tomato's and lettuces and cleaned them for a large garden salad for lunch. My new lettuces are starting to come in so I'm adding romaine, bib, iceberg, red leaf and Simpson along with kale to the salad. Wow what a combination along with sugar peas, cabbage and radishes all from the garden and then green pepper on top with fresh scallions and 'maters. Talk about some healthy eatin' and down right delicious. This heat and humidity will start to take its toll on the leafy green veggies in the next couple weeks so its back to watering twice a day.

After Amy and Sam left after lunch I settled in to read and then caught a quick 10 minute power nap while Nancy took her mother shopping then brought her back here for supper. We had a nice deer roast that Gerald our mountain neighbor killed just before we left to come back to Florida last fall and it was superb. Nancy cooked it on top of the stove at low heat for about 5 hours and it just fell apart it was so tender. She made a gravy from the juice and we put that over smashed taters and along with fresh beets and half runner beans from the garden we had a feast. GG really was surprised at how good the roast tasted and looked so much like a beef roast.

After GG left I settled into the Rays vs the Orioles baseball game and once more the birds jumped on top early and kept the Ray's down most of the game; but they came back with a walk off homer in the bottom of the 9th. It was soon after, that lights out came for me, LATER