Just a quick reminder that we’ll be selling pulled pork sandwiches tomorrow (Saturday) at the Trade Days at Stone’s Prairie Market in Plainville, with the proceeds going to the Barry Winners 4-H group. If you’re new to Plainville, come into town until you get to the four-way stop, then go North about two blocks, and you’re there.
The pork is cooking right now, and we’ll be selling it in BBQ and plain (salt and pepper). I’ve already tasted it, and it’s excellent. I’m starting to hope it doesn’t sell too well, so we have lots of leftovers!
There will also be craftsmen there doing things like basket weaving and soap making, rugs, purses, baked goods, etc. The Stone family will have a historical booth about Stone’s Prairie, the original name of Plainville. And you can get your picture taken with a lamb.
Wow, this was a busy weekend. Not busy in my usual sense of, “I missed my two-hour afternoon nap,” but seriously busy. I’m still looking for a weekend when I can do nothing but relax, but it looks like that won’t be happening for a while yet.
Apologies to all my avid readers for my lack of posts lately. This has been a really busy week, what with my regular work, plus doing quotes for some potential new clients, setting up a new web site we’re working on, getting ready for the Business Expo this week and another thing we’re involved in next week, and keeping up with the gardening and chickens. I had to skip my Latin lesson this week; they’re taking longer now that I’m diverging from the books somewhat and trying to find ecclesiastical selections that fit the lessons. I’ll finish the next one as soon as possible, but I’m not sure when that will be.
Way back when I got my first computer, in the olden days of 1988, it was mainly a game machine. The Internet was mostly a military and university project back then, and a modem was an expensive add-on piece of hardware. There were some BBSs around, but all were on long-distance numbers at the time, which put them out of my budget. On the output end, I didn’t get a printer for a few years, so I wasn’t producing documents or computer art either. Every computer was an island, for the most part.
We’ve been feeding the chickens a batch of wheat sprouts every few days, and they really like them, so I took pictures of the last batch so I could write up a little how-to on it. We’ve also sprouted millet and radish seed, but mostly we’re doing wheat.
These pictures are from a few days ago, but things haven’t changed too much. The garden is going great overall; I’m really proud of how well we’re staying ahead of the weeds and thinning. Usually I don’t thin things nearly enough and they kind of choke each other out, and then when I finally thin them it’s too hard on the ones that are left behind. This year I tried to be brutal about it right from the start, and it’s paying off. (The real test comes when it’s 100 degrees in July, and new weeds are still coming up.)
One thing Catholics and other pro-lifers hear a lot is that we’re all negative, no positive; that we only care about stopping abortion but don’t offer any solutions about what to do with the babies. Of course, that’s not true. The Church and other pro-life organizations run all sorts of pregnancy crisis centers, adoption agencies, and so on; but those things don’t get the press that the political stuff does. This video is a nice (non-political) reminder of the positive work that is always going on without fanfare—that always has gone on.
We went to see the new Star Trek movie last night. That’ll come as a shock to people who know me well enough to know that I never go to movies, especially never on opening night. I don’t like crowds, being blasted with noise, or paying through the nose for something I’ll be able to rent for a couple bucks someday. The last movie I remember seeing in the theater was Quigley Down Under, which came out in 1990. (Good movie, by the way.) I think there may have been one more since then, but I can’t remember what it was.
