The last of the "catching up" posts.

Multiple new entries back in the past have been published. Use this handy blog post to find them. This ends the catching up posts. From this point on, posts will be published in order, no matter how far behind we are.

Herb Garden Bed
Incredibly Hot Day
Clothesline Part II
Harvest
Quarter of Beef
Chef's Knife

One more new post.

We're up to the first of August.

Read our newest post here:

http://8004theorangedoor.blogspot.com/2008/08/john-joans-wedding.html

Chef's Knife

I wanted a chef's knife for Christmas and someone was kind enough to oblige. I don't use it a ton, but I found a good non-knife use for it. Do you have a cookbook that won't stay open, no matter how much you coax it? Use this handy weight to keep the pages open.
Also, it would be a bit safer if you turned the blade in toward the middle of the book to avoid accidental scraping.

Three new posts.

These posts are from the summer and I just put them up today. Find them here.

Pea Pie
Local Dinner
Laundry on the Line

I've got some more posts from the summer which I will link to when I finish them. Then it's posting in order from there on out, no matter what.

Quarter of Beef

Matt and I bought a quarter of beef from a rancher in Eastern Oregon. It was delivered last week.
What did we get with our quarter of beef?

• 13 1-pound packages of ground beef
• 2 packages stew meat
• 1 rump roast
• 2 sirloin steaks
• 1 arm roast
• 2 ribsteaks
• 2 chuck roasts
• 2 t-bone steaks
• 2 cube steaks

Before our beef was cut into edible chucks, it was a cow of the breed Corriente which is a breed that can be traced back to the 1400s. As beef, it is quite delicious and we are also happy to support an Oregon Rancher.

Slow time on this blog.

It's happened again. School has started which reduces my blogging time considerably. Not to mention that there are still posts to draft from this summer. I've just completed one from July 12th (Mark and Amanda's Wedding).

From now on, I'm going to do my best to publish in order, but when things get out of order I will post a catch-up post so you can easily read the new posts from the past. Matt may do some posting too, but he is also pretty busy. Alas.

Lone Wolf enters the Orange Door

I will go super-geeky in this post. Sarah, April, and Felicia, you can skip this post.
When I was younger, I loved the Lone Wolf series. They were so popular that they are on online in their entirety. They were written in Choose-Your-Own-Adventure format, so now that they're online, you can just click on the links.
Anyway, I'm rereading the series and I came upon this:
http://www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/02fotw/sect122.htm
Lone Wolf finds the orange door. Click on the links to enter the door or to use Sixth Sense.
The author of these books is pretty funny. I imagined that, based on the blond warrior vs. evil and blond Texan vs. terrorists nature of the books, that Joe Dever would be pretty conservative. Imagine my surprise when I read page 6 of an interview he gave and find him bashing Bush.
http://www.projectaon.org/en/pdf/misc/FW_Interview.pdf