Tuesday and we are home again, home again. And —- we are glad to be home. It was a good vacation and we saw some neat stuff. Sunday we arrived at the Biltmore Hose in Asheville, NC and got checked in to our room right away. I’ll admit it was more pricey than any hotel we have ever stayed in but what the heck, it was a once in a life time thing. Granted, many of the rooms we stay in when in Vegas cost the same price but Ms. Kate generally gets those comped and they cost us nothing. The Chihully Glass Art Exhibit was very interesting and we both enjoyed it. I think we maybe walked three miles looking at it which for us is unheard of.

We headed back home first thing in the morning and made really good time allowing us to get all the way back home by 1600 hrs. Gaining an hour due to time zone change helped with that too. But — by the time we got home I wwas having serious lower abdominal pains too the point that I could hardly get out of the car. I’m thinking that it was caused by the fact that I had not been hydrating at all. In the past few days I may have had justa couple of cups of coffee and nothing else. I was seriously considering going to the ER but, Ms. Kate suggested that I start drinking some fluids and waiting until morning. Then if I wasn’t better, we’d try to get me in to see Dr. Jackson. Well, once I got laid down in the bed for the night, the cleverest cramping seemed to ease off and I did get a good night’s sleep. This morning I wasn’t feeling nearly as bad as I did last night. I’ve been drinking fluids and I watch how I sit in a chair so that I don’t “crunch up”my lower abdomen and so far I’m holding my own. I think it was all aggravated by sitting in the car all day with a seatbelt up against my abdomen.

Needless to say, the bird feeders are all empty and I need to work on that. But —- it is almost 100 degrees heat index out there so that can wait. I did go out and water some plants this morning and I need to water the garden this evening when it gets a bit cooler. If I went out there now and did that, it would just boil the plants where they stand. I also have a bunch of limbs down that I need to clean up and then get on the John Deeres and mow this place before the tigers move in. Again, aneveening chore depending on how I am feeling.

Ms. Kate has lunch ready so I better get ready to eat. I’ve been gone most of the morning getting a haircut, having the car washed, and going by the optometrist and getting my sunglasses picked up.

Stay out of the heat my friends. Heat stroke are cheap in weather like this. On the other hand, Give God thanks for the heat and humidity because the corn grows like crazy in weather like this. Have a great afternoon.