The morning started off better than the evening ended, with no rain and partly clear skies. After our first cup of coffee, Kay diced the onion, green pepper, and celery while I cooked bacon. After sauteéing the onion, pepper, and celery, we added the triumvirate to the red beans and began the slow cooking process. Carma called for me to pick them up with the truck and trailer. 

They had managed to catch 23 catfish, with two over 13 pounds, and threw back a bass, a carp, and a buffalo. We butchered and cleaned their fish, after which Kay went with Lin and Tom to Wal-Mart in Clinton. I finished cooking the beans, and cooked the rice and smoked sausage. Karen made coleslaw and pan-fried cornbread, and Carma made creamed corn—what a feast! Kay wanted her picture taken with the two ‘bruiser’ 13 lbers so I took one as earrings and then after they were filleted we took another as earring slabs. She is such a ‘ham’.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the red beans and rice lunch. Dean and Geraldine had to go home to get his ‘meds’ so we saved them a plate each for supper. Tom, Lin, and Kay walked the campground for exercise after our large lunch. Then Kay and I read the paper she picked up at Clinton. Kay went out with Carma and Gerald for the afternoon trot line check. She got to watch them ‘take up a line’ and also to ‘put a line out’. They had hooked a real lollapalooza catfish on the last line—it weighed in at 16 lbs. Of course Kay had another picture taken;  so did Gerald this time!  Hehehehhe!
Jack and Betty arrived and set up camp between the Dunns and Davises. We all sat around the campfire and roasted wieners. Then Lin and Betty came out with a surprise—they had bought the group a special treat in Mexico—flavored, magnum (Texas size) marshmallows. We roasted some and Betty and Geraldine had pictures made trying to eat theirs. The weather turned out beautifully most of the afternoon and evening. Got several calls with good news—Dick Todd is doing great and his medication is working miracles, according to his new nephrologist (kidney doctor) in Springfield, MO, with whom he is well pleased; Ronnie Dunn is tolerating his chemo well and feeling much better; and Donald might be going back to work for ARCADIS, part time, (but still able to take off for extended periods of time) on a project he started with the Corps in 1982. We’ve had Ronnie and Dick in our prayers and God is so good to answer those prayers