It has been a short 2 weeks and not much exciting has happened here. I have started trying to cook supper forTracy and Chris all the kids every other Tuesday. Tuesday seems to be a good day and nothing to interfere with it until my outage starts. I will have to take a break from it when the outage starts, but hopefully we can continue it November. Its a lot of work for being home from work, but all the kids seem to enjoy my cooking, lol. I cooked for Blake's birthday on August 12th, the meal of his choice, Grandma's boneless fried chicken, creamed potatoes, purple hull peas, fried okra, tomatoes, cornbread, rolls, macaroni and cheese and chocolate cake with chocolate icing and ice cream. Its hard to believe he is 15 years old... I just ain't got no babies anymore. I forgot to charge my camera battery so no pics, darn it.
I have several more friends from work retiring this month and we went to lunch one day at an old country store that is fixed up as a restaurant. They claim they have the BEST fried chicken in the world. Well, I can't argue with that, lol cause the chicken was gone when I served my plate so I had ribs, and was too full when the next batch of chicken appeared. It was a nice meal and GREAT company and we were even serenaded by the cook. He sang Grandma was my Cornbread Queen! So if any of you ever come to visit in Mississippi, remind me and we will go check this place out again.
I am at the lake now and its raining and has been all day. I will post some pictures of a few things, but basically the place is the biggest mess I have ever seen, lol. I know it will change, and its just the process of progress. The sheet rock in the bedroom end has been mudded and should get the primer on this next week. The ceilings have been done all but a coat of paint which will be done this week as well. The rock man is slow and has only been one man rocking this week, but he is making progress. The contractor has done more wiring and lots of things that just don't show up but still require time to do. They have started the siding where the rock is complete and looks really good. Hopefully the rain will slack and I can get some good pictures from the lake. The den area is piled up even more than before and its a good thing I am not here all the time it would drive me crazy, lol. I think they probably have 3 months of work left, lol. Larry the contractor will not even give me any estimates. I know we will not be finished by Labor day, so I am shooting to be finished by Thanksgiving now, lol. I guess we will come back next weekend for a 4 day weekend, but at this point I am not too excited about it. Some of the grand kids may come with us and we will all have to stay in the den area amongst all the rest of the furniture and furnishings, lol. This plan may change unless the weather is gonna be better than it is now. Football season will be starting and I am looking forward to watching ALABAMA next weekend, wherever I am.
The rain did stop for a bit on Saturday afternoon and Brooke had another jetski driving lesson. She did really good. We had hoped to have another lesson on Sunday morning before we left but the weather did not allow. Saturday afternoon Mom and Dad came to visit, Susan brought Chloe to spend the night with Brooke and Marcia and Brody dropped by too. We basically just visited and enjoyed the view. The water level is down, so maybe the rain will help.
Saaaturday night I had just dozed off when I got woke up by the girls, the power was off. I got up to find that all the neighborhood had power, but not me. That really concerned me woith all the construction going on. As we investigated more we could see arcing and sparcing across the road from us and the fire dept was on the scene. It appeares that a limb was in the lines. The power company came out and they turned off the power to everyone , lol. This is the 2nd Saturday night this month that we have had to sleep with the power off. It was windy all night, but about 8 a.m. the power comapny showed up and tyook care of the problem and power was restored. It rained most of the morning and it also rained all the way back to Vicksburg. Brooke and I had a nice wet drive home and left Pat behind to take care of things. Plans are to go back on Thursday night if the weather improves. 
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