Tonight Robert and I started what we hope will become an annual holiday tradition: Having a Low Country Boil as a festive meal during the Christmas season.
What? You don’t know what I’m talking about?
“A low country boil is a beloved Southern dish with roots deeply embedded in the coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia. This communal feast brings together a mix of seafood, sausage, potatoes, and corn, simmered together in a flavorful broth.” Alaskankingcrab.com
A Thousand “Yums”!
A Few Things for which I Give Thanks:
1. My breath. In. Out. In. Out.
2. This trash I saw yesterday morning in our alley.
Couldn’t that be in an art gallery? The browns, grays, beige, white.
Or is my old age catching up with me?
3. Yummy lunch at Cracker Barrel with Robert’s daughter and son.
4. Grandson Gabriel starting AS A FRESHMAN on his high school VARSITY basketball team.
5. Always, ALWAYS, having enough food to eat. (Everybody doesn’t.)
6. Shoes.
7. Living so close to the ocean.
8. The privilege of voting (even when it doesn’t go our way).
9. The ability to WALK. What a blessing!
10. Indoor plants.
11. All of you fellow bloggers.
Tell me, what are you thankful for on this beautiful day?
Marveling this morn …
My first Thanksgiving/Christmas Holiday Sweet for 2024 …
Sweet Potato Pie
Robert made a Brown Sugar Nutty Topping, but I would only let him put it on half the pie.
Why?
I’m glad you asked.
My mother‘s favorite holiday pie was sweet potato. And she liked it plain without any fancy-smancy.
So that’s why 1/2 of the pie is PRETTY Plain.
Marveling this morning at the invaluable service to our country supplied by our VETERANS.
And my FV (Favorite Veteran) ROBERT (retired Army).
… a few Christmas ornaments for the tree.
At Herb Creek Landscape Supply, here in Savannah, our go-to for all things plant-related.
May you pick up a Tad of Joy this beautiful Saturday evening.
From 1914 to 1918, Flanders Fields was a major battle theatre on the Western Front during the First World War. A million soldiers from more than 50 different countries were wounded, missing or killed in action here. visitflanders.com
The poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, by John McCrae, went on to inspire the use of the poppy, which once grew on the battlefields of Flanders Fields, to become an enduring symbol of remembrance across the world.
HAVE A BLESSED MEMORIAL DAY 2024
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
For quite a while, Robert and I have been planning a trip up to Baltimore to visit a handful of his aging aunts and other relatives in the city and surrounding area.
Our early morning flight from Savannah landed in the Baltimore/Washington International Airport about 9 am this past Tuesday. What a shock it was to us when we turned our phones back on to see the horrorific news about the disaster of the Francis Scott Key Bridge about 15 miles away. And as we found out later, six workers were missing and presumed dead.
1. Ironically enough, first on our agenda before we checked into our Airbnb later in the day was to visit the gravesites of Robert’s mother in Maryland National Memorial Park …
And his father and stepmom in Arbutus Cemetery …
2. We LOVED going back to our favorite Baltimore crab cake restaurant, G and M.
3. Reveling in the ravishing Baltimore daffodils.
Here’s a fascinating little independent film I produced, wrote and directed titled “Daffodil Hunching.” (Watch carefully for my guest star.)
4. Seeing the beauty and truth of this Ukrainian Catholic Church across from Patterson Park in Baltimore.
5. Finding the coolest Free Little Library.
And three books!
I hope you’ve had a Good Good Friday and will enjoy a Great Easter Weekend ahead.
Tonight’s service, again, was beautifully simple and peaceful.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out this post post real quick:
https://nealenjoy.com/2024/02/28/taize/
The chant tonight was centered around this theme:
“There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole.”
Yes! There IS hope, there is the possibility of healing, there is a balm.
So again on this night, may Peace be your Portion.
