After finishing up our business in Chapel Hill this afternoon, we geocached our way back to Deep River Campground. There were a few we looked for and didn’t find, but we did find five total. The most interesting involved Aunt Bee of Mayberry. She was played by the actress Frances Elizabeth Bavier who was born in NYC but died in Siler City NC in 1989. We didn’t find the cache titled Aunt Bee’s Pickles but another search took us to her headstone. Among the tokens left there was a jar of pickles. We remember the shows featuring Mayberry and we remember aunt Bee but neither of us remembers anything about pickles. Can anyone enlighten us?
The Aunt Bee pickle story was that she was entering a local fair with her recipe, but her friend Clara had been champion for the past 11 years. Bee takes her pickles to Andy’s office, but the boys think the pickles are horrible. To save her embarrassment, they switch store-bought pickles for hers and they had to eat 8 quarts of her pickles, but then the guilt kicks in and they eat them all so Bee has to make another batch using her own recipe.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
The warmth we anticipated when we headed to the Caribbean in mid-January didn’t really materialize but the fun we had with our dancing friends and the great crew of the Margaritaville at Sea Islander more than made up for the not so favorable weather.
The Aunt Bee pickle story was that she was entering a local fair with her recipe, but her friend Clara had been champion for the past 11 years. Bee takes her pickles to Andy’s office, but the boys think the pickles are horrible. To save her embarrassment, they switch store-bought pickles for hers and they had to eat 8 quarts of her pickles, but then the guilt kicks in and they eat them all so Bee has to make another batch using her own recipe.