People - Food - Adventures

Another week is done - four days of work and three days to restore our bodies. Our MDS group spent their week continuing the work at Ms. Susie's mobile home.Tasks included installing the last of the drywall, while Jim and Carol continued on the mudding. Other jobs happening around the site were painting, installing a new window, trim for the windows, repairing doors and even replacing a sill.

Annette with homeowner Ms Susie.

We have been fortunate to enjoy our coffee breaks and lunch hours outside.

Ken has been at work in this room all week, first installing drywall, then mudding and sanding.

Annette's upper body can feel she has been doing a lot of painting. One more room to prime and paint next week.

In the past we have enjoyed food cooked on a disc (Disco) by Will and Karen. So this summer we decided to buy a large 20" wok to do the similar style cooking. We tried it this summer with our family at Bird's Hill Campground. We packed it and thought if we had a chance we would cook up a meal for our MDS friends. So this past Thursday was the day. All week long the weatherman talked about weather systems tracking eastward. But we thought and hoped they would be wrong. So on Wednesday night we chopped all our veggies and meat to be ready for Thursday evening. Then coming home on Thursday after work we heard that we had a tornado watch for the area, but it was not raining. We proceeded with lighting the coals and started cooking by 5 with hopes of supper being at 5:30. Had some trouble getting the fire hot enough and we delayed supper till 6. By then it was pouring rain. Thank goodness Jim had set up the fire pit under the awning and also used aluminum foil on half of the wok to keep out the rain drops. A little later than planned but the supper was enjoyed by all.
This stir fry consisted of ground beef, chopped farmer sausage, carrots, celery, onion, zucchini, sweet potato, red & yellow peppers, mushrooms, salsa, barbecue sauce/spaghetti sauce, garlic, spices, brown and white rice.

Saturday we ventured out on the roads of Southeast Mississippi. We explored small paved back roads choosing to avoid the 4-lane roads. Lucedale, near the Alabama border was our lunch stop. We found their Farmers Market hoping to find pecans. No luck here. The Community park and Greenway was a good place to walk and explore nature. We continued west to Wiggins where this town depicted their history through a series of ceramic murals. Of importance to the area were People, Pickles, Pines and Paper. At Lumberton we found the pecans and since our lunch was light we purchased some Chocolate Amaretto Pecans to snack on and of course a Pecan pie. What a great supper dessert. It was an enjoyable 300 km ride on a bright sunny day.