What's for lunch Mama Gladys?

Mom fixes lunch every day unless Dad is busy with Disaster Relief (Southern Baptist organizaton), busy with his latest project. or fishing.

This was the fare last week sometime: BBQ'd chicken, creamed corn, sliced tomatoes, french bread, speckled butter beans with okra mixed in. Of course, sweet tea is the beverage.

(I'm heading to all of the plates o' food photographed right now to call them "What's for lunch Mama Gladys?")

My Sentiments Exactly

Being out at the compound is like my safe pasture. We all have like mindsets and there are few surprises. We are definitely not without our issues, but there aren't too many new ones :). Here is Coco the wee min pin with her perpetual grin at Mama Gladys and Grandpa's.

Fish Fry Lead Up

Here Dad was teaching me how to fry fish and hush puppies in the barn kitchen (I love the barn kitchen). See previous post. Dad rocks!

We are very fortunate in our family to get along. The day we had the fish fry, we had all already gotten together for a dandy breakfast of scones, biscuits, sausage (provide by Caleb and Leanne on their last visit), blueberry preserves, coffee and tea...

We were celebrating the visit of Kathy who flew in from Pennsylvania the day before.

Please keep Uncle Wally and the Comegys in your prayers. Uncle Wally is dealing with colon cancer. The man knows how to keep positive!

Housekeeping

All of the following groups of words mean the same thing. They are synonyms, that is. Sometimes when referring to stuff in our family, it can be confusing because we use different words for the same thing.

The following words refer to the whole property south of Chipley, FL:

Granny's

The Farm

The Compound

This is the 100 acres that was homesteaded by our "people" sometime in the 1800's. There are 4 houses on the property now. The following is a list of what they are all called:

1.

Granny's

Carla's

Comegys'

2.

Tom and Lorraine's

3.

Ralph and Gladys'

Mama Gladys and Grandpa's

(Mom and Dad's)

4.

Aunt Anne's

Aunt Lola's

Tommy and Susan's

The house in Navarre that my family owns is known as:

Cheryl's

Navarre

The house where we all go in Seagrove, FL is known as:

Old Charcoal

Seagrove

Aunt Lola's

The Beach

Here's a pic of a fish fry we had last week. I decided to try out the timer feature on my camera. It's not the best pic but you get the idea. We had the fish fry up at Aunt Anne's. (I tend to refer to things by the original names - Aunt Anne passed in Feb. 2007).