We have been busy the last couple of days on post auction clean up and getting the house ready for painting. Chad and I pretty much have the last scrap metal bin as about as full as you can get it with out stuff falling out.
We also have the last trash bin pretty much packed to the brim both roll offs will be picked up next week.
Last night Dad’s Rotary Club had its annual steak fry. It turned out to be a little bit of a cluster f@#k, but it was OK. We had a beautiful evening but just no steaks.
The event was up here in Elk Park at Freedom Point inside the Sheepshead park. At Freedom Point the US Forest Servicev haa a nice little pavilion with grills to grill up food. Well the person who was supposed to bring the charcoal forgot it back in Butte. So we did not have anything to cook the steaks with. So we adapted. We had a nice dinner of pasta salad, broccoli salad, some nice appetizers of French bread with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil drizzled with a basaltic vinegar glaze. A vegan steak fry.
Then everyone took home their steaks and they could cook them ourselves. This was my Mom’s idea and it worked out fine. Mom, Dad, Colleen and I attended the event so we had four steaks. They had some extras so we bought two of them to bring home as well.
This evening Chad grilled them up on his Traeger grill (which they had brought to the house a couple of weeks ago.). He also cooked up some shrimp and some spaghetti (Case’s favorite food). So,we had a very nice dinner.
Today was a celebration of Colleen’s new life as it would have been her 28th anniversary today. Fortunately she sent the ex packing back in June so we are all celebrating her new beginning today.
I will be honest I may be celebrating a little too much. I have had a few adult beverages this evening, but damn it I feel I have earned them. At the moment, I am nursing a cup of Pendelton whiskey on ice with a Michelob Ultra Chaser. I am sitting on the folk’s patio watching the elk grazing away in the field behind the house.
I am pretty sure Jennifer would have been joining us in the adult beverage consumption and her little nose would have been numb at this point (which was the tell tale sign she was having a little too much to drink). I can hear her laughing and celebrating in my head and that makes me happy.
It was a warm day up here today. On the ride home from our haircuts it was 97 in Butte and it was 90 here in Elk Park. For those not from Montana, that is very rare. For Elk Park to hit the big 90 that is really unbelievable. It is known as one of the colder spots in Montana, so to break the 90 degree barrier is rare. It’s by no ways the first time, but I can probably count the number of times it has happened in my lifetime on one hand.
It has been a good day. We got a lot accomplished, I got my haircut and we had a nice visit with Danna. Everyone is pretty tired but it is a good kind of tired.
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