Daily Archives: August 11, 2016
Not Overly Impressed . . .
About 12:30 my cousins (2nd), Stahlie, Darby, Luke, and Harlan, came over to visit for a while.
Stahlie want to get my stories about the Calvin and Peagram families I had for a college paper she’s doing, and Darby is writing a book using the characters from from the original fairy tales and myths, many of which were pretty bloody until Walt Disney got a hold of them. She wanted some information about getting her book into Amazon Kindle format and online.
This is Stahlie and Darby. Luke and Harlan got bored and left.
She was kind of worried about the way her book was going. She said the characters seemed to be going off on their own. I laughed and told her not to worry, and that my New York Times Best Selling Author friend, Nick Russell, says the same thing, and not to worry. Let the characters tell the story they want to tell.
Stahlie wanted to know what I remembered about my Grandmother and Grandfather who lived on the farm right across US-31 from here. In fact this RV park is built on park of their original farm
This is me with them when I was about 8 months old.
We had a great time, and spent several hours talking
Around 4:30 Jan and I headed out to have dinner at a favorite local BBQ place, 306 BBQ, out on Hwy 72 E toward Huntsville. We’ve always enjoyed this place in the past, but maybe because we had just recently eaten at Sonny’s BBQ in Pensacola, it no longer measured up.
Jan had a jumbo pulled pork sandwich with Cole slaw.
Putting Cole slaw on a BBQ sandwich seems to be pretty much a regional North Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina thing. I know if you ask for Cole slaw on your BBQ in Texas, they look at you real funny.
I had the Two Meat Combo Plate with Ribs and Pulled Pork, as well as the Brown Sugar Green Beans and Turnip Greens.
And you know this is a southern BBQ place since they do have Turnip Greens, and the Pepper Sauce to put on them.
Although Jan liked her sandwich fine, I was disappointed with my BBQ. Both the ribs and pulled pork were bland and tasteless, and the pulled pork was dry.
If I could have slathered on some good BBQ sauce, it might have been saved. But the sauce here is vinegar-based with a lot of Tabasco in it, not my favorite. All I taste is vinegar with these type of sauces. Actually I think I enjoyed my Brown Sugar Green Beans and Turnip Greens better.
Tomorrow we’re getting together with my Aunt Virginia for lunch and a lot of catching up since last year. Really looking forward to it.
Jan and I went outside about midnight to take in the ‘magnificent’ Perseid meteor shower. But for us it wasn’t very magnificent, more of a Comet Kohoutek.
They said we should see 160 to 200 meteors per hour, which would be about 3 a minute. Well, in 55 minutes we saw 12, so it was kind of a letdown.
Maybe we just needed some middle-age school teachers in a VW bus to give us cookies and we wouldn’t have cared.
Thought for the Day:
A true friend always stabs you in the front.
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