Whew!

That's all I can say...first day of school! My Clinic looks like a bomb hit it! Our school is newly remodeled and all our 'stuff' was put in trailers, storage, etc...no shelves in Clinic...stuff everywhere!!! I am tired!!! Will post something interesting soon, I promise...please bear with me!

Vacation's almost over!!!

My summer vacation is almost over! School starts here on August 7th...a Friday. Go figure, a Friday, no less...anyway, I will get back in the groove of waking at 6:00 AM and getting to school by 7:10...bedtime at 10:00 - 11:00 at the very latest! I must be disciplined again...no more frittering away my time...the school year is very structured for me; actually, I don't mind some structure in my life. as someone with ADD, I do better with it. I have had quite a few changes these last few weeks; all will turn out to be good, I hope!This is my 10th year at my elementary school...I have seen many children grow up from Pre-K through 5th grade...many families with multiple children, each in their respective grades. I will see another group that I've known from Pre-K through 5th grade going on to the 6th grade in Middle School at the end of this school year. It's been great. School Nursing is such an important job...we do more than just bandaids on boo-boos. I take care of children with diabetes, seizures, asthma, spina bifida, osteomylitis, severe food allergies requiring Epi pens and dedicated lunch tables, broken bones; some schools have children requiring tube feedings, tracheostomy care, you name it...Our state, Georgia, and our Governor, Sonny Perdue, is trying to severely limit the amount of school nurses, here. The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) advocates that a nurse should not have more than 750 students under their care...luckily, our county has a nurse in every school, which is not the case in all the counties in Georgia. Some counties have lost their school nurses, or require one or two nurses for the whole county...do you want that for your children?

Yum Yum Yum Cajun Recipe from my friend Karen in Louisiana!

STUFFED BAKED CATFISH

The story behind this recipe goes like this:
One Saturday afternoon, we received a call from some old friends from Up North, who announced they were dropping in on us that night and were really hungry for Cajun seafood. A quick forage through our kitchen produced some catfish fillets and some crawfish tails. My thought was that the more fattening a dish is, the better I like it. So, we combined all the ingredients and came up with Stuffed Catfish Fillets... leave it to a Cajun to turn an otherwise low calorie dish into a meal that will get you offers to be the Weight Watchers poster child!
Our friends departed two pounds heavier but wouldn't leave until we gave them the recipe! Ed Roy (From the Tell me More Cookbook)

2 pounds catfish fillets
1 pound crawfish
1 stick butter
1 cup chopped green onions
1-2 (8 ounce)packages cream cheese
Tabasco
Salt, pepper, parsley, onion tops to taste

Season to taste and bake catfish uncovered on a Pam coated layer of foil until golden brown in a 500 degree oven. In a seperate pan, melt butter and saute' whole crawfish and green onions for about 10 minutes. Melt cream cheese into crawfish mixture and cook until bubbly.. Add other seasonings , pour on top op each fillet.. makes 4 servings..

Even More from Southern Fried!

Here's More from Southern Fried!

More to come!

Here's a taste...more to come!

Boggy Bottom Boys - Bluegrass music
Beverly's Camper

Bev all ready for the Trailer Trash Contest!

Sisters on the Fly "Southern Fried"!!!

Here she is...new awning installed and ready to pack up and hit the road! This camp-out was a Sisters on the Fly event. The theme was 'Southern Fried' and the Southern Sisters put it on...

My little camper wanted to be Honkey-Tonk Angel, 'cause of her Shasta wings...I said, "okay".
This is Lazarus, the milk snake, and a little friend at the college where we made pottery out of clay from the area...

Sequoyah Caverns was a wonderful place to camp! I will be going back there again and again...check out their web page and see all they offer...http://www.sequoyahcaverns.com/index.htm. Roy and his family treated us like family...
This is a beautiful barn on the road to our campground...boy, did we have a ball!