I hear today is an important day

Something about a bowl and a game?

Go ahead. Throw something at me. I don't care. Even being from New England, I don't really care about this silly day.

Instead today was a garden-working day.

Yesterday we went and got fresh manure for our compost pile. The things my kids are going to remember from their childhood, sheesh. "yeah, remember when mom took us to this farm, we got to play with a horse and dogs and she filled buckets of manure and put them in the trunk?"  I'm pretty sure we don't have enough saved in the kids' therapy fund yet if I keep pulling stunts like this.

Larry has been working on other improvement projects around here and the garden is starting to grow.  This of course makes me happy.

The kids have been thrilled to have us let them explore the land behind our house and Larry's been thrilled that he can hold one walkie talkie they got for Christmas, they can hold the other and explore to their heart's content. Joey's found about a dozen golf balls thus far. We also found a creek and might have found a way to get a backhoe there so that Larry can re-arrange the dirt on the other side of our wall to make room for more gardening, a possible pair of goats and heaven knows what else he's been plotting.

There are also plans in the works for quail. Since the hatch to laying time frame is 6 weeks, you can in theory have a whole lot of birds in a whole little time. And the males aren't *quite* as loud as roosters. And since meeting a family that raises rabbits for meat.... it's hit the interest radar again.

We bought a 1/4 cow (grass fed) this weekend. And I spent the better part of Saturday re-packaging and re-cutting the meat into portions/steaks that we could use. And using the meat grinder attachment Larry got for our new mixer.  I have a new appreciation for buying hamburger meat from the store- it's a whole lot less work. But with our current hamburger meat I *know* for a fact what went into it. And it's practice for the theoretical deer Larry hopes to bring home from hunting one day. I know, you're thinking "how hard can it be to hunt a deer?" because if you live in New England like we used to, we had a countless deer living in our yard, not to mention the several who where hunted the urban way with cars directly in front of our house......  In fact I know lots of non-hunters who have managed to bag deer that way. And cars, but who's being technical like that?

 Anyway. There's not much else to write about that I can remember. I remember there were other things that cracked me up that I would share, but of course I can't remember them.