Thursday, August 30, 2012
Woke up to a southern breakfast
of grits, a fried egg, toast and tomatoes.
You eat grits with butter and salt and pepper if you wish. I thought they were great! When we came downstairs, our hosts announced
that we were not leaving but spending another night. They simply would not let us leave with the
storm the way it was. We were hoping to
go to Vicksburg to the National Battlefield but it was closed today on account
of the hurricane. So kind. We tried to help a bit by picking up fallen
branches in their yard. We did a load of
laundry, went to Walmart and walked as mostly it rained all day. Cynthia fixed us dinner which included
cornbread, potato salad, fried okra (amazingly good), peas (not the green
kind). I think she called them crowder
peas but not sure how it is spelled. She
put okra in them to flavor them.
Everything was so delicious and served at 12:30 in the afternoon. Cynthia and Bill are so kind and generous! I am in serious calorie trouble with all this
southern cooking! We viewed their photos from their trip to Alaska. Lots of bear pics and they got to see many
moose. Even after the huge dinner we went to Jerry’s Catfish House where they
only serve fresh farm-raised catfish (important that they are fed from the top
and not the mud so they have a fresh taste).
Jodi had Catfish, sweet potato,
turnip greens, and hush puppies.
Jack had oysters, French fries, hush puppies and coleslaw. Oh my.
Went home and watched Mitt Romney’s speech at the Republican convention
and then British comedy.
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