A new little man enetered the world yeterday LBS

LBS stands for Lawson Bryce Saul. My nephew Caleb and his wife Holly are now proud parents after Holy survived 13 hours of total labor and just the last two hours of pushing. Ouchy. He is healthy and at over 7.6 pounds and 21 inches at length. Hair already !!! They are proud parents indeed. My grandfather, his name sake, is happy the only grandson will be carrying on the Saul name, with his great grandson's first name being Lawson. Same initials too LBS. It's a family joke how and when we call him LBS.

So we are happy and this will be a fabulous Christmas gift for their new little family.

All is good and cold on the home front. We are now officially heating with wood and I am going to make a lentil soup on the wood stove today. Will try to cook with it more this year. I have a cast iron dutch oven which can be placed on the coals for meat stews and I could bake bread on top slowly in small loaves. Cornbread does well. I was going to attempt making corn tortillas on the top with a cast iron skillet.

My friend heard my call for greens and greeted me at the door with a huge trash bag filled with greens, eggs,cabbage and a buttery lettuce green with arugula. Perfect timing because I was supposed to cook greens for a dinner gathering at Nina's and my garden is done producing. Douglas had to turn up the kale which was infested with slugs and cut works and bitter. We have some mustard but not enough for 8 people. So she saved me!! Then we spent a quiet late afternoon noshing and sipping wine while Douglas fixed the sink. I was cleaning a pork loin when the drain pipe broke loose sending a river of slimy pork juice and water all over the bottom of the sink, me and the kitchen floor. It could not be repaired. After clean up he went to Lowes for supplies and was able to have it fixed before dinner. Always something. One must laugh at these things. It is so nice to have a friend two doors down who has similar interests and can come into our home with pork juice all over the place !!!!and bearing a bag of greens. Woman after my own heart.