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One thing I have realized after watching all the hurricane news last week is that I am so glad I don’t live in Houston anymore.
All the worrying about hurricane damage and flooding is no longer something I have to do. I didn’t really realize that until Laura came through. It is a weight lifted off my shoulders.
Three years ago when Harvey came through about this same time I was nervously sitting in my chair outside in the garage while the rain and thunder and wind came through. I remember talking to someone on the phone and not being able to hear them because this loud noise started up.
I got up to look outside the garage door and as soon as I stuck my head out to see what it was the wind blew a small branch of leaves landing slap in my face. I think that scared me more than the hurricane did.
Luckily we made it through and no water got in the house. Where I lived in Clear Lake was supposedly the highest ground around. So I guess it does make a difference to be six feet above sea level rather than fi v e .
I hope all of your loved ones in East Texas and Louisiana made it out safely. I have several friends in Lake Charles who I checked on and they had all evacuated. Now it’s time for the clean up and that takes forever.
So even though I’m glad I don’t live in Houston anymore, would it be too much to ask for Rockdale to get a little rain out of a hurricane? Evidently it would be. We didn’t get a drop.
When this virus started up in March and everyone ran out and bought all the toilet paper, I started to get nervous about food. I’m strange like that. If I don’t have food in the house I start getting nervous.
A lot of stories were running about possible meat shortages because all of those people working in meat packing plants came down with COVID-19.
So I ordered a cow. Half a cow to be precise.
And now it’s almost time for the meat to arrive. As I was filling out my sheet for the meat market to let them know what I wanted I realized there are a whole lot of cuts of beef I am not familiar with.
I had never heard of a 7-Steak or 7-Roast, which is basically like a chuck roast with a bone in it. Pike’s Peak Roast. Never heard of it.
Dad is the only one in the whole family who will eat liver. I guess we’ll get some of that. The butcher can keep the heart, tongue and kidney though.
I have a big chest freezer for it but now I’m wondering if it’s going to hold everything. We may have to eat a lot of beef meals in a hurry if it doesn’t all fit.
I’m looking forward to having it though. I’ve never done this before.
The Reporter bought a lamb one year at the fair and had it butchered. We found out very quickly that the Cooke family is not fond of lamb. Luckily we all love beef so that’s not going to happen.
Beef. It’s what’s for dinner. And possibly breakfast and lunch for a while.
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