Slow Days

This was a laid back sort of week.  Storms were threatening the early part of the week, but they missed us.  Tornadoes landed a couples hours north of us and rain was forecast for our area. We had light rain and no storms.

On Wednesday we had a late lunch at the Fish River Grill  about 5 miles northwest of us.  It reminded us a lot of the lobster pounds in Maine.  It is a small building with a walk up window.  The dining area is actually an enclosed, unheated porch. 

The place advertises various fried seafood and hamburgers.  I ordered the catfish plate and Donna had the Swamp River Hamburger.  The catfish was very good with a very thin breading.  Expecting the fish was locally caught, I was a bit disappointed when I learned it was farm raised from Mississippi.  The plate came with french fries, and home-made  cole slaw and both tartar sauce and shrimp sauce.  Everything was very good.  The  hamburger was a 1/2 pound hand pattied burger served with lettuce, tomato and onion.  Donna has been hungry for a hamburger for a couple of days and this filled the bill.  It too was excellent.  As we were dining in, our meal included a complementary cup of their Swamp Soup.  It was an excellent combination of collard greens and black eyed peas in a ham stock.  We devoured it. 

On Friday, after some prodding, I decided to wash the truck.  The weather looked dry for several days to come and it was pointed out to me that we probably had the dirties truck in the park.  So I washed and polished it to a nice shine.  Of course, before the end of the day, it rained and rained most of the day on Saturday.   It looked good for a couple of hours anyway.