Bought a new Bible for myself today after the Traditional Latin Mass at my Church… Douay-Rheims Bible Large Print Edition by Tan Books. I’m looking forward to the enjoyment of reading it with my gradually aging eyes.

I’m grateful we had the opportunity to help out this Great Blue Heron today. A coworker found it and I removed the line around its beak but there was a line and hook stuck in its throat. SPCA picked it up to bring to a wildlife vet for surgery, rehab, and eventual release.

We found some baby deer on our jobsite today and the mama got scared away by the sounds of our chainsaws and other machinery but stayed nearby. One guy stayed with them until we finished with our work.

Near-midnight Cuban sando snack with Boar’s Head Virginia ham and baby Swiss, thinly sliced kosher dill pickle, my homemade smoked pulled pork, and Canadian Maille dijon mustard on a ciabatta roll.

Autodidact Beer (Morris Plains, NJ) Usurper ~ New England IPA with Riwaka & Citra hops

Gubment choppas comin’ in hot

Bacon, lettuce, tomato & avocado, fries and baked beans all smoked with a cherry wood fire.

Converted this smoked pork loin into Al Pastor tacos

One of my girls jumped the fence and I did the same so I could fetch her. She didn’t run, just posed for a nice portrait first before letting me put her back in the yard.

Sweet Birch (Betula lenta) fire & Resilience Brewing/Schilling Beer Co(Littleton,NH) Combover American IPA w/Galaxy hops. Sweet Birch is “nature’s toothbrush” a natural source of wintergreen oil, salicylic acid, betuloresinic acid, etc… natural antiseptics and tasty to chew on

Homemade pierogis with potato, onion, cheese. Eggs are fresh from the hens in the backyard. I haven’t made pierogis in about a decade. Needs a few little tweaks but they were decent.

My neighbor grew some Thai basil and tossed it over the fence to me so I made Thai basil chili chicken.

I was in a cell phone dead zone at lunch today in the NJ Pine Barrens, so I decided to pull out my Douay-Rheims Bible for some Wisdom reading. I don’t need technology to do that.

I got a St. Benedict rosary and 2 books for a good price after the TLM at my parish today but receiving the Holy Eucharist is always the best.

Baby back ribs smoked with a cherry wood fire