Saturday Morning

Friday started out once again with rain, overcast skies but the temperature was awesome in the low 60's for most of the day until late afternoon when sunshine prevailed with a steady breeze. I could literally see the ground drying up so we spent the afternoon outside working in the yard and gardens. The morning started out with me awake around 6:30 despite being overly tired from the day before. After my posting, a few quiet moments we did our own breakfasts; Nancy with her oatmeal and fruit and me with another smoothie. I headed out after breakfast to gather up trash that couldn't be burned then loaded the empty gas cans as we were heading to Galax for more shopping.

 We stopped off at the feed store for seeds and saw our old friend Eddie. We mentioned we were going to the horse sale in Mt. Airy later that evening and he and his wife Kimberly were headed there as well. We then headed to Lowes for some herbs and flowering plants. Seems we are always finding holes in our flower beds where large plants have disappeared over the winter so Nancy wanted to fill them in with new plants. I picked up some more essential herbs and vegetables like; cilantro, dill, sweet potato plants, egg plant and a lavender plant that I thought was rosemary, oh well. I never could find any cabbage plants as it's a might late to plant them but last year they did fine.

We then headed to Wal-Mart for more stocking up as Nancy calls it and believe me we did. We did need a couple essentials and some more insecticide granules to spread along the porch deck to keep the black ants away. We headed back to the cabin after gassing up the truck, hi-test for the golf cart and the middle grade for the mower and other power tools. The attendant for the station must think those Florida folks are weird with 3 octanes of gas in one stop.

We got back around 1'ish then ate a quick bite of leftovers before we then headed out to work in the yard. The garden is much to wet to even think about planting so I sowed several containers of seeds and moved some of the flowering plants into larger pots. We worked out in the beautiful sunshine and cool temps until it was time to get ready and head down to the horse sale. The auction is about 45 miles away down off the mountain so we decided to eat at Subway for supper before heading out to the stock ring. There were some beautiful  animals and a few not well cared for as well being auctioned off. Our friend Mechelle bought a nice Appaloosa. The place was packed and still going strong when we left going on 10. It was a long drive back up the mountain and parkway with nary a bit of light. I mean it was pitch black out. We scared up several deer along the parkway as well as a few other nocturnal animals. It was after 11 by the time we got showers and hit the sack.

We were awakened at 5 AM this morning by the timer on the electric stove making a beeping noise. I eventually had to go down in the basement to shut off the breaker to keep it quiet. It started raining again sometime during the night so it looks like it might be once again

an inside kind of day; at least that will give me some time to trouble shoot this stove, LATER  Here are a few pics from the top of the parkway as we travelled into Galax.