Great Day!

What a wonderful day we had today. Started off the day by heading to the new house to finish installing window blinds (unfortunately no other workers were there!). Saw a lot of activity at our neighbor's place (Philip & Nancy Garrison) and had to find out what was going on. Seems David and Philip and their families were making cane/sorghum syrup similar to the way they had helped their Dad in years past. They had already pressed the cane and the juice was cooking. Had the pleasure of meeting more of the Garrison family: Jeanette and Hanley (our new across-the-street neighbors), and David, Martha and son Caleb. David is Minister of Music at nearby Welcome Baptist Church. Came home for lunch, did some laundry, and decided we had to go back and check on the syrup making. They had poured up one batch and more was cooking!

We got a return phone call from Tim and Jan Sexton that they were home and we could come over. Several weeks ago we had visited with them at Jack's and started talking genealogy. I got some basic information from the two of them and spent several evenings doing research on the computer. So we took some of the information I had printed for them and showed them how they could do further research courtesy of the internet and Ancestry.com. Jan's Mom stopped by and Barron was able to talk about his Scott/Haynes relatives with her. Then Jan invited us to stay for taco soup and burritos and we are glad we accepted that invitation. Had opportunity to get to know their children too.

Hurried home to make peach cobbler for the Scott Reunion tomorrow! (will add fried okra and fried chicken to that) Did I mention that we had rain last night and it was a nice cool day today? Know the syrup guys were so glad of that!! Thank you Lord for a wonderful day!!!!!!