A hot day of food and fun

After church let out this morning I drove home and picked up Cindy in order to travel over to Cissie's house for our afternoon adventure. We drove over to her house and waited for her to come from her church. After a few minutes she arrived, changed clothes, and we headed cross country to go to Concord for Sunday dinner at the Concord Cafe.

This was the second time we had eaten on a Sunday at the Concord Cafe. There are a dearth of places to eat in Pike County, but the Concord Cafe has a nice buffet on Sundays and we headed over and had a nice lunch with a profusion of vegetables, including fried green tomatoes, and some casseroles. I particularly enjoyed the pot roast which I had with my mashed potatoes and the zipper peas.

The Concord Cafe also has a nice selection of desserts that they make themselves, which included several slices of lemon ice box pie (certainly in my top five of desserts).

I figure we had our share of vegetables too and they were really fresh. We decided to go to the Concord Cafe after church at least once a month from here on out. It was very pleasant.

Afterward, we headed toward Woodbury, where our journey took a slight detour when Cindy and Cissie found that they had opened up a new antique store downtown. The ladies decided that it would be a good place to stop and digest our meal before we continued on to Raleigh and the peach orchard.

So we walked through the wares on display. The antiques were a mixed bag. One of my favorite items was a casual cast picture from the Beverly Hillbillies. Oddly, the best item that we identified was an old cast iron urinal from Budapest. Odd might not be the best definition of that item, but it was probably the best thing we found in our journey around the store.

Afterward, we continued on to Hudson's Farms. After a quick drive through Meriwether County we arrived at the little building where Hudson's Farms sells peaches, ice cream, and various other items. After finding out that Cindy's favorite peaches were gone, the lady at the stand mentioned that they had figs. Cindy's eyes widened and the young lady told us we would have to drive out into the orchard to where the fig trees were located.

I agreed to take a basket out into the orchard, in the heat and humidity, and soon was stepping over the water lines and the high grass to the trees. As it turned out, most of the figs were still pretty green and wasps seemed to enjoy protecting the ripe figs. About thirty minutes dodging the wasps, flicking the other bugs off the fruit and dropping the figs which were either ripe or on the verge of ripe.

When I got back to the stand, the young lady gave me a bottled water on the house and we negotiated the sale of some ice cream. The water and the mixed peach and blueberry ice cream was great, but the air conditioning was the key, and before long we were back in Griffin, dropping Cissie off at her house and heading me back for a second shower and a nap.

It was a good afternoon. A pretty good day.