Mmmmmmeat!

It's been a meaty couple of days. Yesterday we placed a 55 pound meat order from this totally awesome Texas rancher. We're only getting 40 lbs or so of that 55...the rest is for my brother and the crew at his house. We've been ordering meat from Alan for 4 or 5 years now. His beef is just amazing! All his cattle are free roaming and grass fed and he raises them from calf to slaughter. No feed lots, overcrowding, antibiotics, or questionable crap. The end result is delicious and as ethical as meat comes (he raises chickens, pigs and goats, too!). 50 lbs is the minimum order but it's really not as huge as you might think. We've always been able to fit the 50 lbs into our standard top-of-the-fridge freezer. Carnivores, you really gotta check this out (and tell him I sent you)! Forget Kobe beef and all those lame designer steaks- you haven't eaten beef until you've eaten this stuff. Real beef! Steak! Don't waste any more time on wimpy grocery store meat. Got a meat lover in your life? Buy him or her some Paidom meat and sit back and bask in the adulation which will surely follow. Steak!

Dinner tonight was chicken fried steaks. Alan's steaks, of course. Sooooo good. I think it brings a touch of Texas pride to Robert's heart (OK, a touch MORE Texas pride...) when he hears his kids shouting, "More chicken fried steak, please!". They eat nearly as much of it as we do- for real.

My local yarn store (LYS) is having a sale to make room for new fall yarns. I went this afternoon and bought yarn to make this sweater for Robert and this sweater for the kids (in different colors of course). I also got yarn to make socks for my mom- her requested Hanukkah gift. Yay!