Recipe for a perfect Memorial Day Weekend

Start with 1 large portion of beautiful weather

add 2 great girlfriends

mix in 2 cute kids, 2 nice gentlemen

slowly add 1 lazy layabout Saturday - simmer under shady tree 8 hours

Taste for seasoning

Invite some pretty chicks

***enjoy warm***

what's wrong with this picture?

Look closely...one chicken is OUTSIDE the hen yard.  And which chicken would that be?  The runt, TINY.  Tiny almost didn't make it when she arrived as a day old chick - she could barely walk, wouldn't eat and seemed to be having trouble breathing.  But she would drink water, and somehow grew into adulthood alongside her sisters.  She is fine now, peppy and the most spirited of the flock - but she is still small.  Small enough to squeeze through the fence!  She does this throughout the day, despite my chasing her back in when I catch her outside.  That petite little dickens!  I should try to fatten her up, maybe add some cheesecake to her feed.  My friend Amy calls her the underchicken, and supports her moxie and strong nature, which combats her status as runt.  Go Tiny!

My Dad Rules, Part 2

Cheese makers frequently use old dumb bells as weight for pressing cheese.  Every cheese  room I have ever worked in uses them, and my Dad found a set on Craigslist last week for $5.  Here he is repainting them, which I didn't know he was going to do.  I love my Dad.  Also, check out his dream work/tool bench.

"You have to use your butt as a fulcrum"

I stopped in at a cycle shop in Interlochen today looking for a motorcycle.  I was chatting with the shop folks about the type of bike I was after, and how I didn't want anything too big, nothing I couldn't pick up if it fell over.  At that, the 60-something, buxom matron of the shop said, "No!  You can pick up ANY bike!  You just have to use your butt as a fulcrum."

ful·crum

   [fool-kruhm, fuhl-] noun, plural -crums, -cra   verb

–noun

1.

the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in 
moving a body.

2.

any prop or support.

3.

Zoology . any of various structures in an animal serving as ahinge or support.

–verb (used with object)

4.

to fit with a fulcrum; put a fulcrum on.

Dew-cloth, dream drapery

Allium Giganteum

These flowers have been blooming around the farm all this past week - they are so pretty and remind me of the flowers in Horton Hears a Who.

my strawberry rhubarb jam