Food and Football keep bringing people together. Actually a lot of things brought people together last week.
Tuesday night at the Cabin, music and politics brought people together. David Holt came to Lattimore to show support for his former student, Jim Proctor who is a candidate for NC House. David Holt is a teacher and musician and a lover of history. He demonstrated musical styles he had learned from all kinds of southerners including a 120ish year old black woman from Bamberg, SC named Susie Brunson. Susie taught David Holt how to play a washboard. With a block of wood stuck on one side and a tin cup on the other. He used something like thimbles on his fingers to strike the washboard ridges and then tapped the block of wood or the tin cup to make different rhythms and sounds. You could watch the audience and know that everybody saw a connection to the rhythms of rap. David Holt also played bones and guitar and Jim Proctor played a washtub bass, which really is a big tin washtub turned upside down with a string and a stick to simulate an upright bass. It was a fun and interesting night.
On Wednesday, tennis brought people together for a social match between 14 women from Hickory and 14 women from home. The home team lost the match, but it was still a good day. The weather was great fall tennis weather and it was fun to socialize outside over lunch.
Wednesday night we pulled off Sister's Birthday Surprise. This event felt alot like spontaneous combustion. It was amazing because what started out in our minds as a simple supper with Sister, within 24 hours, turned into a 12 person seated dinner with surprise guests Quinn and Mary Katherine. Bobby, 4/5s of the Mabry family, Jay and David IV managed to come from various directions to celebrate. Sister was so surprised and we were a little surprised ourselves that it all went so smoothly! But it worked out great, we all had fun and we were so glad to have the opportunity to be together.
Thursday night, Jay's friend Shelby arrived from Ann Arbor, Michigan to spend fall break with us. Jay started official basketball workouts Thursday night also so their schedule is packed but we have all enjoyed the time together.
Friday, Jay was at basketball practice so we took Shelby to meet David IV for dinner. The look on David IVs face was priceless when Shelby first wanted to know what pimiento cheese was and then asked about calabash chicken. It's interesting to realize that what seems so normal to us is so foreign to someone else.
Saturday we went to Spartanburg for the Wofford-Western Carolina Game. We decided not to take the grill this week so our tailgate was deli sandwiches, chips, kit kat bars and reese's cups! Thankfully others brought several kinds of chicken, bbq sandwiches, homemade potato soup and various other munchies.
Once again we were blessed with perfect fall football weather and we came away with a big win and a lot of exciting plays to rehash with everybody. We gathered as many players as we could and took a great group picture.
After the game, it was our turn to take the low country parents to a different world so we headed up to Lake Lure. It was dark when we got there Saturday night, but Sunday morning we wanted to take a boat ride around the lake. Walking down to the dock, Jamey wanted to know where the boat was. David explained it was INSIDE the boathouse. They weren't used to boat houses or to mountains surrounding the water. They almost lost their sea legs when they realized there are no tides to factor when docking the boat.
Sunday we got home in time to go with Shelby and Jay to Sushi Dojo for dinner. We had Bento Boxes and Teriyaki Chicken and shared our favorite appetizer called the Honeymoon. It's a tempura fried jalapeno half that is stuffed with crabmeat and cream cheese with a sweet spicy sauce. Jay wanted a Bulldog roll which is kind of like southern fried sushi. Mixing of cultures was the order of the week.
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