Cookout fun
It’s been a cool rainy week, another inch and a half of rain, but we were blessed with a perfect day for the cookout on Saturday. What a day. I’m just grateful to be a part of this extended community. It was truly a communal effort. If I start naming names, I’ll leave someone out, but there was a long list of folks who spent hours hauling tables and chairs, setting up, parking cars, grilling meat, serving food, and cleaning up afterwards. Good valley living.
The food line was long and slow, but we’ve been talking about ways to speed up some next year. I was a bit nervous about not having enough ORVF meat to go around, but we had enough of everything except the ribs. Even ended up with enough leftover burgers and wings to feed us dinner all week.
Watching all the kids play hard was the highlight of the cookout for me. Brought back memories. Thankful these kids get a chance to make their own cookout memories. They wore me out just watching ‘em.
The music from Vally Grass and Big Tree And The Branch Boys put the cherry on top of the fine evening.
Lord willing, we’ll do it again next year. Again, we really appreciate you all.
Not much else new. Back to farming as usual. A relatively slower week which was fine by me. The smoker didn’t get much of a break after the cookout. Yesterday we smoked some ORVF briskets and Boston butts. If you want some smoked brisket for a quick and delicious meal, check the link below to the online store.
This week I finished listening to ORTHODOXY by G.K. Chesterton.
“In the best Utopia, I must be prepared for the moral fall of any man in any position at any moment, especially for my fall from my position at this moment.”
“If our faith comments on government at all, its comments must be this: that the man should rule who does not think that he can rule… If the great paradox of Christianity means anything, it means this: that we must take the crown in our hands and go hunting in dry places and dark corners of the earth until we find the one man who feels himself unfit to wear it.”
“A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth. This has been exactly reversed.”
“Can he hate it [the world] enough to change it? And yet love it enough to think it worth changing?”
“If I am asked why I believe in Christianity… I believe in it quite rationally, upon the evidence… It is an enormous accumulation of small but unanimous facts.”
Have a good week.
Will