Monday afternoon in Edwards

"The Invasion of the Bridge builders"




"Not much progress and no activity"





This crossing is being closed forever....this is right there by Bertha and Charles Rathers house.






They got "Yard of the Month" from the Bolton Edwards Garden Club.

I am ashamed to say I do not know who lives in this house, it is on Jackson street....



That's all for now...this is me signing off.



by the way I persevered and fixed my computer....so it didn't crash, not all of the way.

Thanks for stopping by!

My computer is trying to crash....

So you may not hear from me for a few days....but here is last weeks Christiansen's Comments. Hopefully.....Maybe a picture of Doctor McCall and his wife Vicki.

July 26 2007
Don’t you just love an uplifting funeral service? Larry Dickson’s service Saturday at the Edwards Baptist Church was just that, uplifting. Doctor McCall’s message was encouraging. Doctor McCall reminded us, there is a place for God’s people in heaven, scripture tells us, Jesus went ahead to prepare a place for us.
Which is not to say there were no tears, there were many…I cried. I loved Larry…Larry and I were diagnosed with cancer about the same time…we had long heart to heart chats; about dieing…our chats were not morbid. We both knew death is a natural part of God’s plan. Larry will be missed, he lighten the hearts and the load for his many friends, neighbors and strangers.
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Sunday afternoon I motored over to Clinton to see The Attala County Garden Club, the play the Brick Street players are doing currently. The play was written by a Mississippian, Topher Payne. Topher has Edwards connections, his mom and dad live out at Queens Hill.
The play has yet another link to Edwards, Naomi Purvis Barnette, although not the star, stole the show…. when ever she came on the stag, the audience instantaneously began to laugh.
I was impressed by the wardrobe too; the play is set in the mid 1980s, they ladies often had on the big shouldered dresses of the period.
The play’s plot twisted and turned in startling ways…..I will not reveal the plot here; Let’s just say it is not your Mama’s garden club.
If you get a chance go see The Attala county Garden Club.
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Speaking of Doctor McCall, when ever he speaks at one our community services, he introduces himself by saying; “I am the interim pastor at the Edwards Baptist Church” he has been there for 6 or 7 years….somebody needs to go on and tell him he has the job….’cause they anit look’n for nobody else.
Doctor McCall turned 90 recently, and still going strong. Doctor McCall serves the Lord with such humility and so cheerfully…he considers it his privilege. Doctor McCall, he is an inspiration and blessing to this community.
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What do you get for those folks who have everything, or just plain hard to buy for? Or maybe you just do not want to get out and shop? Do what I did, get them a subscription to the Hinds County Gazette.
Happy Birthday Betty!
Happy Birthday Suz!
The paper you are reading is my gift to you.
Love to all and call if you need me.

Recipe.....?

I will get back to this first picture....











Well, it is not exactly a recipe it is more of an assemblage...On the food channel and in ladies magazines they all the time are assembling all ready cooked food and calling it a recipe. They will take something like as a rotisserie chicken, a bucket of mash potatoes, some roasted garlic stack it in a bizarre way and call it a recipe...they may have roasted the garlic themselves.

Back to the recipe, Mississippi has the figs this year, and the are especially delectable...fig trees must not mind drought....so I have been trying to use them...So this is how I began the assembly..just slicing the bread.





Then I grilled them on my cast iron grill pan...


Then I spread the grilled bread with cream cheese topped it with a spoon full of my fresh fig preserves.

Now about the top picture...I had a gathering here the other evening, sort of before the theater party for the author of"The Attala County Garden Club", his out of town guests, and some of his family and friends...I used fig branches as my center piece...with figs still attached....And nobody thought it was strange...They liked it... Now if you see a center piece made out of fig branches in Southern living...remember you saw it first.

I must confess, when I served the fig and cheese toasts they did not look like the picture I placed on this blog...my pictures of the affair did not turn out well.


That's it from here....Rural Hinds County Mississippi