This past weekend, our family did a post mortem on the “Big Cook” and folks were already looking at dates for the next one. Normally, we would get back on schedule and would undertake this massive event again in mid-September.…
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It’s Sunday evening and The Big Cook is over… Where did the last two days go? As I indicated in my last post, some of our family members were getting together to do one of our monumental cooks of pork…
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Janet and I are fortunate that our family is so close to us. Not only geographically but also in the ways that we live life together. When Janet and I were first married, we decided to have our children when…
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In the last 10 years or so, I have taken up learning how to make sausage, pulled pork, brisket, kielbasa, meatloaf and a host of other items in our smoker. In fact, we have named my hobby “Scotty’s Smokehouse.” I…
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Saturday, our great country celebrates its 250th birthday. We have come a long way from the days of British rule and celebrations, complete with fireworks, are being planned around the nation. Colonial Williamsburg is expecting 500,000-700,00 visitors per day to…
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Our daughter, Kristin, and her husband, took this week off to travel to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. They love it up there and usually stay near St. Ignace. Not that there is anything special up north but they love…
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On March 29, 1963, a new movie by famed director Alfred Hitchcock premiered - starring Tippi Hedren. I was a ten year old boy when it came out and to this day, it is one of my favorite movies. For…
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Several days ago, I was listening to a news broadcast on Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire after the SpaceX stock offering that brought it to the forefront of Wall Street talk once again. The discussion was about the difference…
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Tonight, our Bible study group, which has been together since the beginning of this century, in fact a few years longer, started up for the season once again. While most Bible studies take a break over the summer, we decided…
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