It’s a major award!
So, just wanted to drop a quick note about life around here the last few days. The first exciting thing that’s happened for us is the arrival of our freezer beef! This fall, we went in with three other families and bought a whole cow from a local ranch. The cow was entirely grass fed and finished, and grew up within 100 miles of our house. The processor is even very local. Yesterday afternoon, Liz brought home #4977, and last night we thanked her for her sacrifice and divided the 300 pounds of beef among the families.
Liz has a lovely blessing and gratitude post up on her blog, along with a few pictures. She echo’s the feeling we all have about receiving the gift of food from this innocent animal. I wish I could be so eloquent.
(This is obvious stealing of one of Doug and Liz’s pictures, because I didn’t bring my camera last night)
Also, a few weeks ago, my short story was chosen as a semi-finalist in the Timex Return to the Outdoors contest. While I didn’t win an exciting vacation to anywhere, I did win a Timex Expedition watch, and it came in the mail yesterday. I think this is a darn cool award. The watch is huge, way too big for my little wrists, but I intend to wear it around happily on our next adventures. It has the usual date and time functions, with some obscenely huge number of lap splits and several congruent countdown timers. It also has a BAROMETER AND A THERMOMETER. Which is just freakin’ sweet.
Aaron wants to know where the picture of the cow is before the little white packages! :-)
Congrats on being a semi-finalist!
Thanks everybody!
We get the beef from B Bar S Ranch in Nederland, CO. They have pictures of the cows up on their site. They look tasty! They also send us a calendar each Christmas with lots of pictures of the cows and the ranch owners and workers in it. It looks like a really nice place!