Our weather has been more seasonal, 30's at night and low 50's during the day for a high. Quite pleasant for outdoor activities. This afternoon I rummaged the woods for dry dead kindling and Cliff filled the wood rack on the back porch again. The Weather Channel is putting the next wintry mess right over us for Tuesday and Wednesday. We're in for an icy couple of days. My guess is that it's not really a winter storm as it hasn't been named. My birds have plenty of seed and suet and I'll be making more warming winter soups and probably another small chocolate cake to go with the wine to get us through this year's crazy NC winter. Cliff wishes he were in Florida. I really don't mind it if it's only a few days and by Friday we'll be back in the 50's again. The garden will need to be tilled around the first week of March so I can plant my snap peas and a few weeks later get the potatoes in the ground. So in my mind, spring is not that far away.
Happy Summer Solstice! It was a beautiful start to this day. The typical mountain fog had settled in when I got up at 6:30 but burned off shortly after. I always go outside when I first get up, scan for wildlife, and walk around soaking in the morning peace and calm. Did about 20 minutes of stretchy yoga, showered and had a light breakfast of cream of buckwheat with ghee-fried peaches. I still felt a little full from eating Italian food with Janice last night. We go out at 4:30 and take our time eating and talking, have a glass of wine and Friday night is dessert night. Janice is doing better. It'll be a year in August since she lost Ernie. I left the breakfast dishes in the sink and headed to our Murphy Farmers Market. First stop was "Healing Ways" produce farmers for fresh Swiss chard, butter crunch lettuce, and a bunch of young summer squash and zucchini since all of mine are falling off the plants....
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