Up To Speed #2

This morning we all went to the Central Market where we ordered a 1/4 beef. Now that Abram has accepted another one-year appointment at F&M, we can live like people who aren't going on the lam any time soon. It is a lot more economical to buy meat in bulk, and we can store it in our freezer. Later, we dropped Abram off at the office to do a bit of work while Owen and I went to the toddler gym. After his nap, Owen got a trip to the library with Daddy; he'd asked a couple of times since we returned home from our travels to go there. They brought home a stack of books including an Italian picture dictionary and a couple of books on tape in Italian.

Here are a couple of photos from the day we picked up pecans at my great-grandmother's house. Allen and Karie invited us to go, and Owen slept through most of it. It was nice to forage for food from trees planted by our ancestor; I remember picking up pecans there when I was little, and Murmur, who declined any pecans since she had enough to shell already remembered her mother picking them up every day before school was dismissed so that the children wouldn't take them on their way down the hill from the school past her field and pecan trees.