I hand watered several new seedlings while the washing machine filled(I think the filter must be clogged as it takes forever to fill) so we could do some laundry. It was a great day for hanging clothes outside on the clothesline. We took off for our daily hike to the top of the mountain and saw a vehicle at one of the houses but no one was insight so we continued on across the top where we met up with Joe and Jetta. We stopped and visited with them for a spell before heading on back down the mountain to our cabin. It was close to lunch time so we indulged in a fresh chicken salad on a bed of lettuce, yeow was that ever tasty especially with my home(Florida) grown tomatoes on top. Speaking of home grown tomatoes I have several that are ripening on the vine that I set out when we first arrived here at the cabin.
We got ready and headed out to town. The day was just beautiful with a warm breeze in the 70 degree range and no humidity. The festival was competing with another festival not to far away in the Grayson Highlands Mountains. The number of exhibitors was very limited and there was only one station where music was being played whereas there is usually 4 stations. We did hear some good Blue Grass Gospel from a local band of all young gals. They were very talented and all of the instruments where represented. We watched some real good cloggers and then visited an area set off for authors from the area. I purchased a book about the spine(mountains) between W.Va. and VA. The book is much like The Charles Curalt(sic) episodes seen on PBS. He interviewed folks from the areas starting in Frederick County all along the spine down to Grayson and Carroll County(Galax). We also spoke with an author who said our dear departed friend Ralph Payne, who was from Galax actually saved his life when he was a young man in a very bad car crash. I will post a photo of him as well as the first author.
Well we headed out around 4 PM to gas up and shop once again at Wal-Mart to stock up with goodies for the cabin and for family and friends coming in the next 2 weeks. It was late afternoon before we got back to the cabin and decided to doctor up a frozen pizza with fresh onions, peppers, oregano, basil and fresh mushrooms for supper along with a garden salad, Yikes that was some good eatin'. I headed out to the gardens once again to check on the new transplants and hand water the ones that had dried out. I did move up some lettuces into larger pots earlier in the morning and they looked great. Lettuce is so hard to grow here because of the clay soil but I'm adding lots of sphagnum moss to the mixture of compost and I think these may make.
I had a large pile of debris that needed burning so I had a good fire going in the campfire circle and then picked up 2 more full trash cans of sticks, pine cones and limbs from the back woods yard. There is still a lot of moss there as well but the lime seems to be helping with getting some grass to grow there. It wasn't long before it turned dark
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