Friday, July 21, 1970
A really lazy day. David slept until 10:15. We took a walk along the beach and found a few small pieces of driftwood. No shells on this beach, but lots of small dead catfish–even found the skeleton with the crucifix, and a porcupine fish.
After lunch Kathy and I went to Ocean Springs to visit a pottery that one of her neighbors tod us about. Mr. Paul Anderson is the potter, and if we hadn’t looked so long at the pottery we could have watch him work. Mostly the things are from his wheel, and they were lovely. The glazes were especidy interesting-he makes them all, and the clay is local. To get there we passed a picturesque marina and wound through a woods underlaid with pine needles and ferns. Got a much better feeling about Mississippi than the commercialism of Rt 90. The Andersons run the whole operation. Mr. Anderson is the potter, Mrs. Anderson the businessÂwoman and the young daughter-in-law the salesgirl. I bought several pieces, with glazes called gulf shoals, and spring green and blue cloud. Then I gave her my check and offerred identification she said only good people buy “Shearwater pottery”.
At Gulfport stopped in the dock and bought a pound of shrimp for supper. Got out the cookbook t,rJing to find out how to cook it and was in tie midst of trying to peel it, take out the black vein and so on when Kathy brought Candy in and she said “Do y’ll need a lil ole Suthem gal to sho ya how to cook shrimp? We sho did cause all you do is put shrimp seasoning in boiling water and dump the shrimp in, head, shells, vein and all. Cook 10 minutes or so, watching them turn a lovely shrimp color, drain, and serve over ice with sauoe made of catsup and horseradish. And were they good. Even Kathy ate some when we peeled them for her. We had asked the man at the shrimp house how to cook them and he said he never ate them. He sure is missing a lot.
I washed my hair and bup light brown “Nice and Easy” on it to cover the grey, and as Don and David were deep in a chess game, Kathy tried to teach me. But it’s pretty complicated for me. So then we tried monopoly, which I hadn’t played for 30 years, and I don’t think I ever won a game, but I sure cleaned them all out in 1 1/2 hours. Tonight I had the headache, so didn’t join David for a moonlight walk out on the tidal flats.