September 20, 2009. Chevy Chase, Md. Farm.

This weekend at the farm was busy, and beautiful.  The weather was perfect.  Daytime temperatures were in the mid seventy, going down to fifty at night, so no need for either heat or air-conditioning.  Saturday morning Ken made a fire, to burn all our trash, so all day as we worked around the farm house we enjoyed the smell of the bon-fire.   Every so often I sat beside the fire to ponder and stare.  Ken thinks that watching a fire is similar to staring at the TV, where you keep watching the show even though it is no good.   We ate lunch down in the pump house too.  I brought a lot of frozen meat from the Jay's freezer over to our freezer,  but before I could do it, I had to organize the last years meat in order to make some space.  One of the large freezers of the Jay's is broken so I needed to help them out with removing at least some of our meat.

At the end of October Ken and I are going to drive to Texas and will take frozen meat for David and Suzanne.  We am taking all the rest of last years meat along with whatever will fit into the four coolers.  Today we purchased two more coolers that last for five days so now we have four large coolers that will keep the meat frozen for five days.  As the drive takes us three days the meat should be fine.  Now we are ready.

On Saturday Brian sent over a cheque for $4500. for the sale of ten of our calves.  Pretty nice.

Saturday night we attended a fund raiser at the Lebanon Christian Church building fund.  It was a turkey and ham dinner complete with all the trimmings.  I am always interested with these fund raisers.  They never tell you how much they need to raise, now do they tell you what they are going to build, but I never ask any questions as I am afraid to be asked to take charge of the project.  The food was good home cooking along with a singer playing his guitar and singing cowboy songs.   We saw everyone we know and met several folks we did not know so I guess it was worthwhile, but next time we are going to drop by with our cheque and eat at home.