Sunday, August 23, 2009

"I'M HOW OLD?!?"

Here, a picture of the soon-to-be birthday boy (with dad, Earl - picture taken at the recent Trumbower Reunion!!) Birthday party to be held, rain or shine, this Sunday, August 30 here at our Hovel on the Hill!! Addie promises to bring the birthday cake (look for future pictures on this site of that cake and said party!!) and we'll cook up a bunch of crab and drink a half keg of lager! Also celebrating, dear friend Kenlyn Long!! This will be the actual day of her birthday - how great to celebrate together! Yippie!

The cherry pie won't be at the party! Look at the great sour cherry pie we were able to enjoy!! Thanks to a picking of Butch's sour cherry tree, enough sour cherries were procured to create one batch of sour cherry jam and one sour cherry pie. MMmmmmm!! Three springs ago I planted a sour cherry tree at my place in town and I have my fingers crossed that next year will be its year. Makes me think of Grandma Kinzer's tree!







I promised a picture of Mom with her prize fish from our day fishing at Jackson Lake. The picture was snapped just before she dropped him! No harm, no foul - it was dead! Too bad we didn't have the presence of mind to snap a picture up at the most beautiful lake around!! Nice day of fishing; thanks for spending some time with us here in Jackson, Mom!

Look! Four beautiful zucchini!! There are lots more growing too and we have a week of warm weather ahead! Thanks to Michael's diligent covering of the delicate plants during our four days of frost, we have succeeded!!

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

YIKES!!

Okay, it's been a long, long time since I've done anything to this site. Glad they didn't turn it off on me!! Here is a picture from our wonderful pack trip. I wanna go back!! Check out this batch of jambalaya. Oh man, was it good! Don't ask me for the recipe; I doubt that I'll ever come up with this again! And how can you beat cooking over a wood fire? Delicious!

Life has been crazy busy, like everyone else. The chickens are doing great! Seven eggs out of six hens the other day! The bonus egg! We had a great trip back for the Trumbower Reunion. Lots of Trumbowers to meet! Whirlwind trip. Got to see the Orioles and Reds play in Camden Yards which was awesome! Our flights there and back went well. It was a nice trip!
This weekend is the Hoback BBQ Rib Picnic. 2800 pounds of ribs will be cooked and it will all be done for another year by Saturday evening's end. This year's planning has gone well. Wish you all could come!