YUM-O!

Still no birding. The neighbor boy did say he saw a white bird with black stripes fly by today. I promptly ridiculed the hapless 10 year old until he cried.

Our neighbors gave us a big hunk o' meat last week. I dug it out of the freezer and put it in the fridge 2 days ago and then unwrapped it today to find a huge ribeye boneless loin. I cut it up today into 2 big chunks for beef tips and 12 big ribeye steaks! They also gave us a plate of sirloins that we ate tonight....they were fabulous. Our other neighbors gave us broccoli and green beans from their garden! nice.

12 ribeyes!

All wrapped up and ready for Elle's b-day party Saturday!

I should have been a butcher....you know, like the guy in "Gangs of New York" If you don't think that was a good movie watch it again...you didn't get it. I know it sucks that Leonerdo Cappuccino was in it but you can overlook that.

We are trying to remodel our kitchen on a shoestring budget and we are going with stainless steel appliances of course. My sister is remodeling hers right now by chance as well and passed along her nice gently used stainless oven and we were able to pass ours on to our neighbors who had a super old broken one. We trade and give and get food and help with all of our neighbors and it feels like a nice tight knit family community looking out and helping each other. It feels like that is the way life and humanity should work.