Monday, 11 May 2009

• Tammy Supper

  With Dad (my father-in-law) in Uganda for several weeks on mission work, hearing from him is always especially nice because it makes him not feel soooo far away. I got tickled and truly jealous over him sending me this particular email (below) that he titled, "Tammy Supper" and just enjoyed his thinking of me. My father in law knows me well enough to know that a big avocado cut up for supper would do me JUST FINE! I LOVE avocados! In fact, everyone in my family likes them. I wish we could afford to have them on hand EVERY single day so I could eat one EVERY day, I love them so much! I've doctored them up with lemon or lime and a dash of salt, or even just sprinkled a little Chipotle sauce on them when I'm in the mood for something with a little kick. I love mincing fresh garlic on them as well and of course guacamole is a favorite. Either way, I love them just the way they are as well. Natalie often asks for lemon and cummin sprinkled all over hers. Yum! I've always loved feeding them to my babies because of them being a fresh food that has wholesome fat that is so good for them. So, yes the diaper bag has often had an avocado or two in it!! With them being a dollar or more a piece most of the time, we only eat them a couple times a week.... But fresh off the tree is a whole other thing!!! How wonderful would that be?!?! Oh my goodness. It's so frustrating to me when I buy avocados and cut into them and find that they are stringy or bad inside. It's so funny to think about the joy I have every time I cut into one and find it's perfect! Every time I think, "Yay!" When Jonathan and I went to vacation for a week in the Dominican Republic I was sooo INTO all the fresh fruit. I literally felt like I was in Heaven there (Oh man, and just to think what Heaven is really going to be like!!) It was AMAZING. It all seemed to taste so much better. I think a lot of it had to do with it being local produce and very fresh. They told us that the bananas, pineapples, melons and all kinds of other fruits were just recently picked. I think many of the bananas in our super markets are gassed to keep them from ripening until they can get into consumer's hands in all the many places they're shipped to. Who knows when the avocados I buy in Publix or Sam's are picked off the tree. If I had my wish, I would live on some land that had a good many fruit trees and blueberry bushes and enjoy "living off the land". If avocados grew well in northern Florida we would have one already, but they do not. It gets too cold here for them. I do still dream of having several blueberry bushes, a lemon tree and maybe an orange tree of our own and hope to make that happen sometime in our future even if it means saying goodbye to my azalea hedge in the back. Anyway, here's the short emails between me and Dad yesterday.  His thinking of me makes me smile. But thinking of him and the work he is doing for our Lord makes me smile more.

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  From: Bob (my father-in-law)
  Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 11:54 PM
  To: Tammy; Jonathan
  Subject: Tammy Supper
  
  

  I sat under the tree from which this was picked for supper
  
  

   

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  From: Tammy
  Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:05 AM
  To: Bob
  Subject: RE: Tammy Supper
  
  

  I'm SOOO jealous!!!!! I looked at Jonathan and said, "you sure we aren't called to be missionaries in Uganda?"
  I mean we know I can live without a kitchen. I love to camp and I KNOW I could survive HAPPILY eating off trees there! :)

  Love you Dad!

  Tammy

  
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  From: Bob

  Sent: Sunday, May 10,2009 4:15 PM

  To: Tammy

  Subject: Re: Tammy Supper
  
  

  Your reply made my day.

  Hug the kids for me.

  Love, Dad

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