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Mar. 13th, 2021 09:29 amWe've started replacing the decking boards out front, and most of the cross beams, except one, are solid and don't need replacing. Only one has any significant water damage. Once the new support is in we'll start securing these new composite boards we got, which mainly need to be hosed off once in a while. We'll be avoiding all the staining and sealing and stuff that wooden boards require, and we found that our local HD carries them in a new chocolate brown color, whereas the last time we considered composite, it only came in a weathered gray. Kind of poetic and reminiscent of the grayish, salt-stained wooden planks in a dock by the sea, but it doesn't really look great with everything else. The warmer brown fits in much better.
The shipping was ridiculous but I ordered a crate of about 5 pounds of marrow and soup bones from a place called White Oak Farms. Their schtick is pastured and grass fed, humanely raised and slaughtered animals. They even have pastured ducks, chickens, geese, and grouse. Maybe it's a consequence of growing up as a nerdy kid who read too many British novels, but I always wanted to roast a Christmas goose. Anyway, with a name like "White Oak," I suspected they were southern, and lo, they're in south Georgia, probably a good eight to ten hour drive from me. So they also fit in with my preference for eating more locally. If they'd been in Colorado or Wyoming, I wouldn't have bought anything. And this also spares me going across the Buckman once a month to the Asian grocer for beef knuckles. I can make probably three pots of bone broth with what I've ordered, holding the rest in the freezer. I can make it four if I get some clean blades and use the Sawzall to cut the knuckle bones in half. That should theoretically be here on Tuesday, but might be Wednesday.
The Crow Bros have started calling at dawn from treetops in our yard. I saw them flying through the forest around this area early, but they've gone off to do Crow Stuff for now. None of them have physical characteristics that I can see to distinguish them. One is larger and stockier-looking than the other two, but none has anything remarkable like a white feather, cracked beak, etc. None of them are banded. So rather than trying to name them they'll just be Crow Bros for now.
The shipping was ridiculous but I ordered a crate of about 5 pounds of marrow and soup bones from a place called White Oak Farms. Their schtick is pastured and grass fed, humanely raised and slaughtered animals. They even have pastured ducks, chickens, geese, and grouse. Maybe it's a consequence of growing up as a nerdy kid who read too many British novels, but I always wanted to roast a Christmas goose. Anyway, with a name like "White Oak," I suspected they were southern, and lo, they're in south Georgia, probably a good eight to ten hour drive from me. So they also fit in with my preference for eating more locally. If they'd been in Colorado or Wyoming, I wouldn't have bought anything. And this also spares me going across the Buckman once a month to the Asian grocer for beef knuckles. I can make probably three pots of bone broth with what I've ordered, holding the rest in the freezer. I can make it four if I get some clean blades and use the Sawzall to cut the knuckle bones in half. That should theoretically be here on Tuesday, but might be Wednesday.
The Crow Bros have started calling at dawn from treetops in our yard. I saw them flying through the forest around this area early, but they've gone off to do Crow Stuff for now. None of them have physical characteristics that I can see to distinguish them. One is larger and stockier-looking than the other two, but none has anything remarkable like a white feather, cracked beak, etc. None of them are banded. So rather than trying to name them they'll just be Crow Bros for now.
