RAIN RAIN GO AWAY....

So as I was saying earlier we had some running around to do today. Well, it's almost over.  First we went to soccer and it rained.  Then we went from the soccer field to watch Riley run in the fun run. And it rained.  Then we went to the Harvest Happenings at Osborne Park.......and it rained....hard.  Still, with all the water it was a pretty good day and I think the kids had fun at the harvest party.  Right now Riley is at his friend's birthday party and I'll be going to pick him up before too long.  All the rain and gloom made it feel like a a chili night for dinner. So right now I've got chili cooking in the crock pot and I've got all the necks and backs from our broilers cooking in a big stock pot to can some chicken stock later tonight. I've never done stock before so we'll see how it goes.

    Also, as I posted earlier, we took the broilers down to a Mennonite family to be processed.  I really envy their simple way of life.  Although the physical work they put in is more than probably most of us will ever know, they are not bogged down with all of the "stuff" that makes life so complicated for us. Our "stuff" makes life so much more complicated than it needs to be.  A while back I read a book called Better Off by Eric Brende.  It really makes you take a look at life and how we would be able to enjoy it more fully if we weren't being held hostage by our obsession with technology.  It's the story of a man and his wife who as an adjunct to his graduate studies at M.I.T., decide to live among a group of Amish who live so minimally that many in the greater Amish community consider them antiquated.  Brende and his wife live with the "Minimites", as he refers to them, for eighteen months.  It is really eye opening.  I recommend that everyone reads it.