This picture shows nothing remotely what you all are talking about, but it's some of my haul today. We just got back from a Mennonite farmer and brought a fresh chicken (7 lb beauty), 7 lb of lard!, a huge cabbage, 10 lb of Yukon Gold potatoes, 5 lb of carrots. I was on a quest for pig fat ever since Cheryl posted about making lard. I called a local farmer and he could sell me the fat, or the lard itself, which the Mennonite ladies buy for their pastry. Hmmmph, no brainer, I bought the lard! The veggies are in bins which he just picked out for us. I wish I needed onions, but I don't, there were 10 lb bags of the most beautiful, large onions. I hate buying bags of onions and they're small. Tons of garlic, too. I just bought what I had room for in the frig, the lard I'll be putting in margarine/sour cream containers for the freezer.

Black cats...... Here's one at a horse show my wife was riding in back in October. and here's a different one that showed up at the lake cabin we rented back in July. The previous renters left a couple of cans of tuna with a note saying to give it to the cat.

DH built a double set of stairs off our deck. (The set to the left could be made into a wheelchair ramp or a ramp for a disabled pet? at a later date, if needed. )

It's amazing, ElizabethA...supposed to be the world's largest floating crane constructing the bridge...it made it through the panama canal.