Yes, I believe Kathryn and Ken were served some good hot-rize biscuits! (The Martha White spelling
) We got some yesterday from BoJ's that were barely an inch tall and HRH was explaining to us later what probably went wrong in the kitchen. Smiling at Kathryn decision to ask for hot tea since she was in the south. Thinking about cotton, I suppose there is not much growing on highways around here that K and K might have seen, just on farms off the beaten path. The hotel where Dee stayed in our area was near the former site of a small gin. Our area and the mountainous western part of the Carolinas into Tennessee would have less cotton in general, so K and K wouldn't have seen it on their TN trip. The eastern half of the Carolinas, with the greater expanses of level ground, grows plenty-plenty. My cousin the librarian's family is a cotton-growing family and her dh runs a gin. Some family from our neck of the woods go to their annual season-end celebrations.
Delighted with Kathryn's take on the service and how welcome she felt. I feel like I was there. Have not heard "kinetic" in reference to preaching but immediately knew what she meant. About the sermon direction veering off - In my dsecondmil's church the minister spends an hour not getting to the part he was headed for!
Our own minister can do some of that himself - enough to drive dsonil, who really desires "full circle" sermons, a little crazy! Fascinating that the minister's hat stayed on through the preaching, but then as I think of it, it makes sense that he would not take it off at the indoor-outdoor venue of Cowboy Church. 
to stack the boxes as high and compactly as I could, and left the empty boxes just inside the door for easy access. 
