Aimless Tangents

May your day be filled with burgers, hot dogs, brats, steaks, chips, potato salad, and whatever other foods you wish to char over a flame. Celebrate your day off of work. But always, always…Remember. My father is current military. Both grandfathers were military. My father in law is former military. My family has had a [...]

My mantle was feeling a little bare to me. Who am I kidding? It was bare except for when Christmas came around and I had holiday decorations on it. Also would have stuff on it when it occasionally had no home and we’d stick it on the mantle ‘just because’. The holly berry garland is [...]

I got sidetracked from making this post by trying to come up with some sort of witty name for the roast like Spicy Drunken Cow or something. The simple truth is that we call it my Beer and Peppercorn Roast. And it is super easy and very, very yummy. I’ve made this in both a [...]

I’ve wanted a compost bin for a while now. The willow tree in our back yard sheds leaves like you wouldn’t believe. And as I hate bagging leaves it seemed like a good idea to have a place to rake to so that they may decompose into something the plants will love. Thanks to the [...]

The tastes of summer and of memories. Warm Sunday afternoons surrounded by family and tons of food. The lazy clink, clink of a chain swing moving back and forth. Laughter at the family stories retold. Call it Tort or Tart, whatever you want, but I grew up with it being called Blueberry Tort. Regardless of [...]

This weekend the Hubs and I continued our tradition of going to the Ren Fair in Muskogee, OK. We’ve gone every year for the past 4 years and I have to say this was one of the best years. Part of that was due to the company we had this year. Some local guild mates [...]

I take after my paternal grandfather, Pawpaw. The one that used to go dump diving. The very one that would come home with lonely hammer heads and weld a length of pipe onto them to make a functional hammer because there was no use wasting a perfectly good hammer head. Pawpaw died several years ago [...]