FIRE ANTS!
Stepping out of the motor home a few weeks ago, wearing my flip-flops, my feet were suddenly attacked by fire ants. Let me tell y'all, those tiny little buggers are vicious and fast. As I flailed my hands trying to brush them off my feet and legs, they got on my arms and started injecting more venom. The red welts and puss filled bumps started itching immediately, and they are uglier than a well diggers butt. For a week, I was scratching my arms and legs worse than a hound dog full of fleas. After another trip to Walmart we're armed and ready with Fire Ant Poision and Benedryl Extra Strength Itch Stopping Gel. I hear tell it will be about 6 weeks for the red welts to go away.
WAL-MART
While I don't like shopping at Wal-Mart and try to avoid it like a hill of fire ants, Bay St. Louis offers little shopping choices and I have been in Wal-Mart more in the past month than I have in my entire life. Shopping there has provided some entertainment and laughs. If you've ever seen "The People of Wal-Mart" photos going around on the web you know what I'm talking about. I think some of those pictures were shot right here in Mississippi.
When I shop for fresh produce, I try and buy locally grown. The other day I was enduring another stop at Wal-Mart and saw the produce man putting out some good looking sweet corn. I said to him, "excuse me, where did the sweet corn come from?" He looked at me and matter-of-factly said "from the Wal-Mart warehouse". He made my day and I still laugh about it.
FRIENDLY SOUTHERN CHARM
The waitresses are very friendly. "Hi y'all, how y'all doin' today?" "What can I get cha sweetie?" "Thanks darlin; y'all come back now, ya hear?"
I went to Joanne's Hair Salon for a cut and color. Casey, my hair stylist, was oozing with southern charm and she was just as cute as a bug's ear. Everything was "Miss Connie" this and "Miss Connie" that. It was a hoot listening to all the ladies in the shop joking and laughing and talking southern. Remember the beauty shop scene in the movie Steel Magnolias? It was pretty much like that. Miss Casey even gave me a hug when I left.
KATRINA
Hancock County, MS, where we've been staying, was hit hard by Katrina when a 26 foot wave surge swept over the area. Driving along the beach road, there are many vacant lots for sale. Several of these lots have remnants of homes left with driveways and brick steps to homes that aren't there anymore. There are large empty paved parking lots where businesses have yet to rebuild. Many of the homes and buildings that have been rebuilt are perched on top of 2 story pilings. Several large white oak trees that didn't survive Katrina have been carved into beautiful statues of dolphins, birds, and angels.
THE RECIPE
If you have arthritis, throw away the ibuprophen. Dare say, if you take 2 teaspoons of The Recipe each day you will feel like a young'in again. Here's the recipe for The Recipe:
Put Golden raisins in a jar
Cover the raisins with Gin
Let 'em set in the covered jar a couple of days until the raisins get plump from soaking up the Gin.
Jim's enjoying the treatment, but is still waiting for the cure.
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