The Dog Days of Summer If I’m being honest (and I try to be) I hate August. We are as far from spring and fall as you can get and- if you follow this blog at all- you know those are my favorite times of the year. Business is erratic and slow as everyone tries to...
When you spend most of your day using a variety of razor sharp knives, even the most experienced butcher is going to draw their own blood once in a while. As a rank, novice butcher, I am pretty careful and have only needed the medic a couple of times. This last week I...
What My Kids Got to Do On Summer Break We all remember that question on the first day of the new school year: “What did you do this summer, Billy?” Inevitably, the cool answers were things like Disneyland, summer camp and rich grandparents’ estates....
I think it’s important to call July 4th Independence Day. Every country in the world has a 4th of July (save the “some countries still use the Julian Calendar, Adam” please). But not every country has an independence day. Why is that significant to...
