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So, since this blog is basically a tool to help me remember as much as it is anything else, I wanted to cover the Mississippi portion of our recent Tour de South.

It is sad, but we never, ever seem to be able to spend enough time with any of our relatives. That is just where our lives are right now, I’m afraid, and so we do marathon trips where we jam in visiting and driving and wishing that we could stay longer and finish up feeling like we have jet lag even though there were no airplanes involved.

But we did so enjoy our time in Mississippi, however short it was.

Did you know that stuff really grows well in Mississippi? Yes, it does. And I think that things grow particularly well for my in-laws. They just have that gift. And, of course, it helps that they basically live in a sub-tropical zone.

Just look at these beautiful blueberries.

We were fortunate enough to come home with many quarts of these. I am having blueberry visions right now. I just don’t know what to make first.

Aren’t these cute little cabbages?

It is fun to shoot your gun in Mississippi.

Of course, you know, two guns are always better than one.

Did I mention that my in-laws can grow anything? When they moved into their current house, it looked like the building had been built on a field or golf course. There were few if any trees.

It doesn’t look like that now.

The slip-n-sliding was great fun.

And slip-n-sliding should always be followed by popsicles. I think that might be a law. Yes? By the way, isn’t this picture funny? I don’t think that my great-niece knew what to think of her crazy boy relative. He is quirky, I’ll admit it. Or maybe she’s expecting him to get naked and run around again like he did earlier. You never know.

Yummola. My mother-in-law and my 9-year-old made this delectable pie. Just looking at it makes my mouth water. Add some vanilla ice cream and it is perfection on a plate.

Jon likes to take pictures of creepy critters, sometimes.

Yik. Okay, to get that image out of my head, I will instead think of this:

Did you know that some day lilies look like they have glitter on the petals? (Click on the above picture and then click again to zoom in.)

Amazing.

Beautiful.