Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Rammy]

This coming saturday they are having a one day Bluegrass festival here for the first time....I seem to be in the rare crowd of liking Bluegrass and will go check it out for a little while anyway.....

I love bluegrass. Have several channels on Pandora I listen too. When I was younger(much, much, younger) we used to go to this fair, I think thats what it was, every year up whe I lived in WVa.
People there made instruments, crafts, one place you could grind your own cornmeal. Whenever my parents couldnt find me, they would find me where they made mandolins and other instruments. I was just mesmerized. I also like jazz, big band music, Scott Joplin. In the fall where I am now up in Adams, they have a music festival like that. Always fun.

 

[Bruce]

I also like bluegrass music.

 

[Pastor Dave]

We have Bean Blossom South a piece of us, but definitely a quick day trip. My buddy us in a bluegrass band, plays upright bass.
Cornfields and Crossroads.

 

[farmerjan]

Bluegrass is very popular here in Va. They have a "tour" type thing where you can travel along a route that has many bluegrass oriented places to see and stop to hear... Nearly every country radio station here has at least one night a week or something with 2-4 hours of bluegrass. There are a couple of stations that play near as much as country. I enjoy it and have been to several "Bluegrass festivals" over the years.

 

[Mike CHS]

When we first started we made sure that we tracked our progress in pictures but after a little over three years I still took pictures but had lost the desire to have detailed before/after pictures. Now that the major work is nearing completion I started back up putting an album together. The picture I'm posting is of the field that is the Northwest corner of our place and it's where our BYH friends were taken when we went out to meet the LGDs. I don't have any pictures from that corner since before I cut it several times you couldn't get there. That thicket was thick with trash tree saplings and briars so thick a beagle couldn't get in. That brush pile in the center working right is actually a pile of construction debris that would have filled up two semi truck trailers.

 

[CntryBoy777]

It sure has come a long, long way....and your "vision" that ya worked towards can be seen by all....y'all have worked hard to accomplish the task in a rather short, but "action packed" period of time.....

 

[Latestarter]

Man... it's hard to believe that pic was taken almost/coming up on 6 years ago... Comparing what was to what you have now doesn't make me feel quite so bad as I've only been here 2 years... I have 4 more to match the amount of work you've put in!

 

[Rammy]

Doesn't even look like the same place. You definitely can see all the hard work. The pastures look amazing now compared to what they started out looking like. All your hard work is and has paid off. I know the sheepies sure appreciate it.

 

[Mike CHS]

This is another recipe that I got from Facebook but I'm posting the direct link for those that don't use Facebook. I rarely follow a recipe exactly as written but this used a combination of spices/ingredients that I wasn't familiar with so I followed the recipe to make sure if I wasn't happy, it was the recipe and not my changes that caused it.

The recipe called for leg of lamb but I wanted to see how it did with one of the lesser cuts and used a shank. I did not follow the cooking method though but I scored the shank and applied the rub and then seared it on all sides. We put it in our pressure cooker and cooked it for 45 minutes. If you like the spices contained in this recipe give it a try - we cook extremely well but this was one that made you smile as you started eating. The sauce contained in the recipe is worthy of keeping all by itself. Not nearly as sweet ad American sauces but the flavors blend so well you don't need the sweet.

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/05/pulled-lamb-sandwiches-oven-recipe.html

 

[Bruce]

Man... it's hard to believe that pic was taken almost/coming up on 6 years ago... Comparing what was to what you have now doesn't make me feel quite so bad as I've only been here 2 years... I have 4 more to match the amount of work you've put in!

I think we can give you another 6 years LS, you don't have a Teresa to help!