I'm heading down south to Dixie, Hurrah! Hurrah! That is, if I can cajole my partner in crime to veer 1,000 kilometres off the beaten path. I'm off to Florida but hope to spend some time in Montgomery, Alabama, which should be in full spring bloom. I want to see the Kiss-Me-At-The Gate and Cape Jasmine, and while I'm there I will take magnolia petals and write love notes to my beau on them with a pin. The petals will wilt somewhat and the messages will turn up in brown. Flowers abound in my flawed southern gothic novel so I 'spose I'll work on that a bit.


I wish I was in Dixie, hooray! hooray!
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand
to live and die in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie

And I've been dreaming of:

Baked Chicken Salisbury Steak Barbecue Pork Fried Chicken* Steak & Gravy Chicken & Dumplings Pork Chop Casserole
Fried Chicken* Turkey & Dressing Baked Ham Roast Beef Meat Loaf Fried Pork Steak Barbecue Pork Fried Fish Collards
Steamed Rice Field Peas Mashed Potatoes Yams Fried Corn Green Limas Black Eyed Peas Scalloped Potatoes Collards
Broccoli Casserole Macaroni & Cheese Squash Casserole Smothered Cabbage Scalloped Potatoes Rutabagas Fried Green Tomatoes Macaroni & Cheese Potato Salad Lemon Meringue Pie Coconut Cake Chocolate Pudding Raisin Bread Pudding Pound Cake Banana Pudding Sweet Potato Pie Peach Cobbler German Chocolate CakeApple Cobbler Red Velvet Cake Strawberry Pie
Apple Cobbler Strawberry Short Cake

This is how I went from a size zero to a size six in less than a few months in 2004. I'M NOT KIDDING!

DIXIE COUNTDOWN: 4 days