Waiting for Tropical Storm Lee

It isn't often that we eagerly anticipate a tropical storm to arrive from the Gulf Coast.  But this time it's different.  We need rain badly.  We don't need a lot at one time but this time it's predicted to move through slowly and the soil is so dry, it should soak it up as it falls.  We DO NOT want Pea River (that flows through Elba) to flood again as it did in the 1990's three times (1990, 1995, 1998).

Tonight the rain is supposed to move into our area.  YEAH!  I don't think we've anticipated rain this much in a long time, and without hurricane winds and tornadoes.



Large vats of peanuts boiling

 We took advantage of the cloudy and breezy day to take a short trip to nearby Luverne, AL to get some boiled peanuts at the "World's Largest Peanut Boil".

Held in conjunction with The Shriners' World's Largest Peanut Boil participants in the festival will have a great chance to purchase some of the over 60,000 pounds of peanuts which are sold each Labor Day weekend as a part of the Shriner's annual peanut boil - recognized as the largest peanut boil in the world for over 30 years.


Then we settled down to watch the Ala football game, the Auburn game, and listen to Clemson and Troy ballgame on the radio.  Several of our family were at the Clemson/Troy game where our granddaughter Nerissa is a 2nd semester Senior in Nursing program.  Several people from the Elba/Troy area went to the game.

We had an early Labor Day cook-out tonight.  Jim grilled some good rib eye steaks and I made  baked potatoes and a big garden salad to go with the steaks.  And a tall glass of good cold iced tea.  He is waiting awhile for a dish of Homemade Vanilla Blue Bell ice cream that I bought today; the best ice cream in the world according to Jim Gilmer!