What’s Going On?

I realize it’s been a week since I last wrote a blog post. What happened? Well, last weekend was extraordinarily busy (even by my standards) and once again it spilled over into the current week.

First, the youth group at church volunteered me to cook 80 pounds of pork so they could sell barbecue to raise money for a trip.

Yes, I said 80 pounds! The short version of this story is that the pig shoulders were duly rendered into 40 pounds of pulled ‘cue and (along with 3 gallons of home made sauce) was all sold for a net of over $300 for the youth. Of course doing that took up almost all of my Friday and Saturday but it’s a worthy cause.

Second, my son’s scout pack held their annual father-Son cake bake on Sunday. So any remainder of Saturday that wasn’t devoted to pig leg cookin’ was devoted to 3D Darth Vader Cake cookin’:

Tad Vader got second place in his den! On the downside I got volunteered for something else – leading and organizing the Pack’s Christmas carolling excursion in December…

I also tried to do too much around the house and blew out my knee. Does anyone know if a large, painful, purple knot just above the knee should be considered a serious condition? I don’t think it is because it went away soon enough. But not before…

Stacie and I took Tuesday off to get some Christmas shopping done. We did. But the endless miles of mall walking didn’t do anything to help the knee. (note: it’s feeling much better now)

Finally, I attended an Administrative Council meeting at church yesterday. Not much to tell about that but being the final administrative meeting of the year, talk naturally turned to plans for the coming year. And that reminded me that the new chairperson has plenty to do before January.

Right, more busy-ness…