Happy Anniversary

Today is our 11th wedding anniversary. We celebrated by driving to Mill Valley very early this morning to pick up my new lion fountains. The folks giving them were quite nice and the boy played with their son while we loaded. Boy! are those things heavy. The fountains are identical with the exception of color. One is a pale sandstone color, the other a blue green. I think the bees will get the lighter colored one. Right now they're still in the back of the truck. Getting one over the porch and over to the bees is going to take some doing so we'll wait a day or two. I'm exhausted from working late Friday night and still have to work tonight. Jonathan and I joked that the fountains were his gift to me.

When we got home, we switched to the car and drove to Willowside meats to pick up our beef order. In the end, our quarter weighed 167 pounds. The cost break down is this:
$586 to the rancher
$18.75 to the executioner
$125 to the butcher

We brought home about 135 pounds of meat which means we paid roughly $5.40 per pound of organic, grass fed, range beef. Pretty good I think.

Here's a photo of the bounty....




3 bags of bones for soup or dogs
41 pounds of ground beef
8 pounds stew meat
4 pks swiss steak
4 pks fajita meat
3 chuck roasts
3 london broils
1 cross rib roast
1 tritip
1 rump roast
2 pks short ribs
1 pk filet mignon
3 pks rib steaks
3 pks t-bone steaks
3 pks sirloin steaks


The freezer is well on it's way to being full and the hog will be ready in about 2 weeks. We can't wait to break into those grass fed rib eyes. mmmmm mmmmm. Happy anniversary to Jonathan!