Is it the real thing?

Yes, it is the real thing.  I never thought I would live to see the day that I would help in grinding up some meat for food, but here I am contributing to the work (I kept the kids out of the way, took pictures, and held the bag for the stuff that was done).  Brian and Brice did a great job of cutting the meat and putting it through the grinder.  Brian wanted me to cut the meat, but I declined graciously and went about taking care of the children.

I would have been much better off had we done what we should have done last year and taken it to:

where they have 20 vrs (that is what the sign says) of experience. But we did it on our own and now we will probably wait another year or two before we get it out of the freezer.  By that time it will be nasty and I won't use it anyway.  Just kidding.  I need to get over my problem with eating meat.  I have just seen too much of the slaughtering and gutting and cleaning of animals that it almost makes me want to be a vegetable, I mean vegetarian.

On a lighter note, I was walking out my door when I came across this beautiful HUGE leaf.  Yes, it is the real thing.  I even put a regular sized leaf next to it to let you see how big it really was. I love this time of year when the leaves are falling all around us.  

Another thought on is it the real thing.  Is it really Heart Mountain?  It was getting dark when I took this picture, but I loved it.  It makes it seem cold, which it started getting this evening.  I dragged the boys and Sheyna out just to take some pictures and all I got was black screen.  But that was okay. As I said, I loved this picture.

Yet another thought for Is it the real thing.
Amazing!!!!!

Yes it truly is the real thing.  I am a faithful watcher of gas prices.  I was shocked the other day to see that gas had gone below $2.00 a gallon.  Yeah!!! Just in time for us to go on a trip and enjoy it a little without having to worry too much about the price of fuel. Hopefully it will stay that way for quite a while.

One last food for thought.  Is this the real thing?

Yes, it is.  If you are talking about a razor.  You can find a few of these around our bathrooms at home.  However, if you are talking about it being a toothbrush?!?!

 Well, it doesn't work so well.  Simon thought it was funny til he saw the blood on his Doggie.  Not a good thing to get Doggie all dirty.  That would mean a bath in the washer and that takes too long.  Anyway, we were getting ready for bed and I told Kjelden and Brayden it was time to brush their teeth.  They left the living room and I heard the water come on.  I assumed it was one of them actually doing what I asked them to do.  I went to do something in the kitchen and noticed it was Simon hanging on the bathroom sink with the water on.  He does this sometimes, so that didn't alarm me, but I went to turn the water down as it was on full blast and I could tell, due to the steam, it was getting hotter.  When I got there, I saw Simon brushing his teeth.  Maybe you don't call it brushing.  Skinning his teeth?  I don't know.  All I know is that a razor DOES NOT make for a good toothbrush.  End of story.