This is a place where people know how to live, and better yet, they know how to eat. Our little local paper came today with a list of places to go get election night dinners! These seem to usually be local polling places that have dinners of chicken and biscuits, roast pork, or turkey and all the fixings. The dinners are sponsored by churches, fire departments, or civic organizations. Personally, I'm fascinated by the Ham and Scalloped Oysters dinner, but have no idea where Scipio is... We may try the Pork Roast and Chicken and Biscuit Dinner in Jacksonville since it's on our way home.

I voted this morning on the way to work, but C's voter registration application got mangled in the mail on its way to the voter reg board and they've got him voting in another precinct with special affidavit requirements. So, more voting fun is yet to come. They use the quaint old lever machines here, none of that high tech, highly controversial, touch screen electronic voting stuff yet.

Oh and speaking of good food, C went to a local craft bazaar and bake sale on Saturday morning. He reports that the bake sale table was staffed by sweet little old ladies. He came home with a couple of insanely good, hand made, cream puffs. They were delicious! He also bought a little jar of handmade elderberry and currant jelly. If you've ever made jelly, especially from berries, you knows it's a labor of love to cook down the fruit and squeeze it through cheesecloth to get out all of the berry seeds. This stuff is very good and it was only a dollar! If some fancy, schamcy gourmet store got a hold of grandma's jelly, they'd put an elaborate label on it, sell it for six dollars a jar, and tout it as being handcrafted in small batches. Lucky for us, we beat them to the punch. Yum!