Today was awesome. It is about 9 p.m. and I have been on the couch for about 45 min, looking over old Southern Living magazines, enjoying the last page in each one, titled, “Southern Journal”. These are just little short stories about how we “southerners” don’t understand when restaurants up north or out west do not offer “sweet tea”, or why “chicken fried steak” would not be on their menu. It was great looking through some tried and true recipes and cutting my favorite ones out, thus allowing Randy to throw the books out. He just doesn’t understand why I would love a closet dedicated to boxes of old Southern Living, Southern Lady and Taste of Home magazines. So I am being forced to go through the ones dating back to 2000 and just cutting out what I want to keep and throwing them out.
We came home tonight driving through the rain, after going to one of our old places we use to eat, Sicilian’s out in McKinney. It is just the best italian food and so very cheap. They bring huge garlic rolls and put them on the table and then you order speghetti with meat sauce for $5.25. I splurged and ordered chicken piccata with artichokes and mushrooms for a$8.00. We had been to see a dear friend who is in the hospital who suffers from ALS. Michael is such an inspiration to us all. He is only 55 and he radiates a smile to everyone who enters his room, even though he cannot even hold a pen or glass of water. We pray every day for a miracle for Michael, but maybe the miracle is going to be on the other side of Heaven when he is walking with Jesus around the streets of gold. He wasn’t wanting to talk about himself, he was asking us to tell him about our vacation. It was a wonderful visit and we came away feeling blessed to be called Micahel’s friend.
Visiting Michael, eatting speghetti and looking through Southern Living magazines, it was a most glorious “stormy Saturday”.
Chocolate Castles 