Red Neck Cookout :-)

Hey Ya'll, What has a gun, gills, legs, hooks, hunters and shells all have in common? They are all used for & in a red neck cookout. :-) We were invited to a fishfry/cookout tonight that ended up pretty interesting. When we arrived our host said we had been invited to a true Red Neck Cookout, had we ever been to one before? "No, what is that?" was our reply with a smile. Well we were going to have Bass, Catfish, Dove (freshly shot today) and frog legs along with some fix'ins. It was GRRRRReat! I liked it all, I wish it could be said of all the meat it "tastes like CHICKEN". The fish was great, the dove was seasoned and bacon wrapped, the frog legs -yummy actually (although I laughed really hard when they brought us over some to "try" because it was the lower half of a frog and I giggled at the sight). Fresh fruit, salads, corn bread, and taters along with many homemade icecream, pastries and desserts to melt your buds right off your tongue! Anyone leave hungry and you alone deserved to be "shot", for sure (just kidding) but it was an excellent time.

We laughed, shared stories of "bein' kids" and only the good Lord's protectin' us - (how any of us ever servived we wondered), enjoyed the outdoors, fellowship, the laughter of kids playin' and jumpin' on the trampoline, four wheelin', motor cycles, and a type of football toss, not to mention a hatchet toss target, all we would have needed was to have "granny and Jedd Clampit" roll by to invite us to their "cement pond". :-) The Red Neck Cookout ended up being a shot gun fun time while exposing our past memories and watching our children create their own! :-)

By the way - I loved my very first solo ride on a four wheeler with three others gals on three four wheelers on the dirt road while Emily giggled to share with her daddy that "Mommy drove her own four wheeler Daddy!!!! All by herself! ;-)" It was a great Labor Day (started 1882-83 in the state of New York). All Praise to God and all his creation which was an Out of this world country experience to add to our family's memories! Thanks to those of you we spent our 2008 Labor Day with Ya'll made us feel very welcome and we enjoyed our time with you - another memory with friends we can call family.

What was your Labor Day 1 September 2008 like? Hope you enjoyed your friends/family like we did today. :-)