Woody returned a while ago from walking to and from the Prayer Room at church. On the way home he encountered a gentleman that he had met the night before at the Furnace Room Prayer meeting. He just happened into the prayer room last night. He is walking from PA to CA! Woody found him a place to stay last night and when he encountered him earlier today, the gentleman was wanting to go to Shelbyville...a few steps closer to CA...I guess? Anyway, Woody told him that he would go home and get our car and then take him to Shelbyville. When he got home he called our friends in Shelbyville to find out if there were any homeless shelters or inexpensive motels there. Woody got the information and headed back to pick the gentleman up. He left him sitting on a park bench in downtown Tullahoma. When he got back, the man was sitting on the bench. Woody had to go around the block so he could park and when he got back the gentleman was gone! Woody waited on the bench for a while and checked in a couple of eateries that were in the area...but no sign of him...so Woody just came on home.
My task of the morning was to get my mother's recipe for Boston Baked Beans cooking. I got them in the oven before noon and then they cooked the rest of the afternoon. We are going to have a modified cookout tomorrow...it will just be Woody and me and Nathan, Esther, Elijah, Isaac, and Joseph. Kathy and their youth, Graham, Abigail, and Joy are at church youth camp this week. Woody can't eat most of the things that we usually have for our cookouts...but he says that he will eat in moderation...and mainly enjoy the corn! We did find a potato salad that told how to make it friendly for a low potassium diet...you peel the potatoes, cut them into cubes, cover them with water and bring to a boil. Then you pour the water off and cover them with cold water and bring them back to a boil and cook till done. I have done that. The potatoes are cooling while I write the blog. I have the celery, red pepper, onion all chopped and the eggs are cooked. I will go down and make the dressing that goes on it after I blog and then get it all put together so it will be nice and cold tomorrow evening. Woody bought a rack of ribs that I will put a dry rub on and cook in a slow oven tomorrow prior to our meal. And, there are some hamburgers and hot dogs for Nathan to cook. Woody says that he is going to have at least one rib! He has been trying to be so good on his kidney diet and I don't want tomorrow to blow it for him. Of all things he has his next labs done Thursday morning. Surely tomorrow won't mess things up too badly. He probably won't eat any of the beans...or if he does only a bite or two and he will have only a small serving of this potato salad even though it is more kidney friendly. This diet is very limiting...or so it seems to me! I'm hoping that his labs will be so good that the restrictions of the diet can be lifted a bit. He goes back next week for the results of the labs.
I finished another book this afternoon between cooking jobs. Woody has read, done crossword puzzles and challenged the computer to several games of Scrabble. It has been another very "warm" day...as in it got to 90 degrees again today. It definitely feels like the day before the 4th of July!
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