We celebrated the New Year in a very quiet country way. Well, that is after all the gun shots and pot banging were over! Our dog was nowhere in sight until well into the next morning and still somewhat shaky. (I rewarded her with some of the leftover ham we used to season the collards). We proceeded to cook black eyes ("pennies") and since we couldn't find any good greens ("dollars") at the grocery we went over to a frien
d's house and picked collards from their garden (they farm and sell collards, cabbage and numerous other good things to a local grocery). We had lots of fun checking out their new poultry additions (more types of ducks and geese than most poultry catalogs!) and chatting and visiting. I really was glad the grocery was out because it was a lot of fun to visit with them. Then back home, cooking collards, and visiting with my MIL who cooked the pork chops ("to be able to live 'high off the hog' ") and cornbread. My older children "opted out" of this most Southern of traditions but my niece and SIL and BIL joined us to catch a little of one of the ball games. Food was good (we like an excuse to eat these things even though the children have yet to develop a taste for them), but family and friends are even better. Hope you all had a wonderful beginning to the year 2008![Thursday is "triples" (triple coupon days) at Harris Teeter so I'll be grocery shopping bright and early with a list of 5 "shops" using over 100 coupons if all goes well - but until then I'm cleaning out my fridge and pantry to be prepared to stock up big time (hopefully)!]
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