Our special visitors walked with Lise and me, wanting the full experience of living here. CAT came out to greet us, and Magda petted her.

I was so busy talking that I turned around at the stop sign and kept going. Everyone agreed to backtrack for the obligatory photo.

We had a Southern breakfast of biscuits and scrambled eggs, with the addition of livermush. That is a local dish, which I learned about from reading a novel set in the mountains of North Carolina.

Grandson David joined us to go to the nearest barbecue joint. Magda has had barbecue here, and she felt Basia should experience it, too. Nobody complained. David did do something different, though, choosing smoked chicken instead of pork.

I took a photo of Magda, sitting in the huge chair at the BBQ place.

David had a different perch on a cart in Ingles. We always take our European guests to my favorite supermarket. They aren’t required to love it, but they usually enjoy the experience.

Got to have barbeque but I’m not sure about that liver mush stuff! 🙂
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You are allowed to be skeptical.
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Great to see everyone, Anne. Did that novel happen to be by Jan Karon?
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Yes, Ruth. You are absolutely right! Jan Karon wrote the Mitford series. There was an older man who was always eating livermush.
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The Mitford series is my bedtime reading right now. This is the third time I have read it.
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If I could read easily, I’d like to read them all again.
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It looks like Basia will go home with great memories from her stay just as Magda did/wil.
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I hope so.
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You make people, even those you don’t know, feel very welcome, so I’m sure they will.
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What great pics! It sounds like a day well spent!
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They went shopping in town, and that’s when I wrote about the first part of our day.
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I just found out about livermush from the past season of Top Chef
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Wow! I’m impressed.
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Fun times and great memories!!
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