Nice Sunday

My goal was to just relax yesterday, it is going to be an intense work week, so I needed a little calm before the storm.

We went out for lunch, and at the last minute Ken had the idea to go for a short hike with the dogs, at our favorite, Desoto National Memorial Park.

So we went home and got the dogs, and then we were off. I have been noticing a sign that says "Historical Graveyard and Church" right before the park entrance, so on a whim we went down that road to take a look. I also knew the sister farm of the one I get my veggies also is in this area.

Not only did we get to see the graveyard and the church, we drove by the veggie farm, AND found a new hiking spot!

At the end of the road is something called Robinson Preserve. This area was opened as recently as July last summer. It was previous land slated for development, but the land was saved in the last minute. Now there are trails all over, and the land is left to heal and restore itself. Take a look at this link for some pictures of the Preserve to get an idea of how it looks like.

These trails are much more open and not as shaded as the once at Desoto Park, so we just took a quick look, but we are making plans to come back- It would make a great winter hike place!

It was really hot yesterday, almost hot 35 C while we were at the park, so we threw Stan in the ocean (Bob likes it and goes by himself). They looked happy after they got to cool off, all full of sand. Not so happy a few hours later when we got home and they had to take a bath to clean all the salt and sand off...

So a very relaxing day, ended with some gardening. So many tomatoes, I don't know what we will do with them all when they start to ripen! So far it looks liek only one is getting red. And teh red peppers! HUGE! I had to get stakes and stake out all teh talle rplants, they are so heavy with veggies...

Now back to work...