Sunday Dinner, July 5, 2009 & Happy Independence Day!

I'm a little late getting my Sunday Dinner post done because I've been celebrating Independence Day with family and friends, doing that most patriotic of activities: eating too much.

More on that in a bit, but first let's deal with Sunday Dinner.

I fear many may be disappointed again this week, because I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner. My church is having Patriotic Sunday which will be finalized with a sandwich fellowship after the 11 am preaching service.

I have a surplus of homegrown cucumbers that my father in law has shared with us, so I'm going to make some of my HOMEMADE REFRIGERATOR PICKLES to take for the fellowship, and I think I'm going to make some homemade lemonade to take.

The fellowship completely slipped my mind when I went to Wal*mart Thursday so I didn't get any kind of sandwich makings or enough bread either, so refrigerator pickles and lemonade it is.

What's on the menu for your Sunday Dinner? Share your plans in the comments if you'd like to participate this week.
I trust you all had a wonderful and meaningful Independence Day.

As I alluded to earlier, I spent Saturday afternoon at my nephew's place, enjoying food, fun and fellowship with family and friends. Danny fried catfish and French fries outside under their carport and man, was it ever good!

I took some of my homemade refrigerator pickles to the fish fry, and others contributed various desserts and side dishes to round out the meal.

The day started out hot and sunny but as the day wore on it got really cloudy and humid and we were under a thunderstorm watch until 8 pm tonight. We got several showers but nothing severe, and not much thunder and lightning at all, praise the Lord.

It was still very hot and humid, but we made it okay under Danny's carport with some box fans moving the air around and helping keep the flies at bay, although not entirely successfully.

We left a little after 8 pm to come home. The mosquitoes were beginning to make their presence known and I for one wanted no part of feeding the skeeters.

It was a very enjoyable afternoon/evening and I enjoyed the catfish and the company immensely.There's really no news about Lamar's eye, still yet. We did get word that the blood work they did this time came back negative, but since we don't know for sure what they were testing for, we're not really any better informed than before we got those results.

Negative for what???

And of course the offices were closed Friday-Sunday for the holiday weekend, so we haven't been able to contact them for more information.

Lamar's next appointment with the eye specialist from Memphis, Dr. Meyer, is on July 17th, so we're basically in a holding pattern until then, assuming we don't hear anything from them before then.

Since we're at a standstill regarding Lamar's eye, he's going to take advantage of an opportunity to visit his brother in Fort Worth this week. Barring any unforeseen hindrances, Lamar will be leaving with his Uncle Pete in his semi truck on Sunday morning, headed for Fort Worth. He'll be there for a week, riding back on Am*trak next Monday night/Tuesday morning.

It will be good for him to get away for a while and take his mind off all the circumstances surrounding the issues with his eye, and it's been nearly a year since he's seen his brother.

I'll be well occupied with my grocery shopping on Monday or Tuesday, and then I'll have Emmy here with me Wednesday-Friday, so I'll have a full week. And that's in addition to my usual chores and things I need to get done during the week.It's nearly midnight my time, so I'm going to get this proofread and published. Y'all have a blessed Lord's Day. May you have all you need and enough to share.