I have been asked to show a picture of my freezer.

Today is the start of the “second summer”, when loved ones come back again.  Banjo Man returns, as does my lap-steel-guitar-playing brother-in-law.  As does Son #2, the one who likes to fish.  As do J & A, our happy engaged couple from back east.

The dominoes are ready, folks.

And then there is the upcoming reunion of Banjo Man’s old friends from high school, five of them with their wives, for five days of story-telling and laughter.

The food is ready, too.

Latest dessert count:  2 blueberry cakes, 1 vanilla cake, 1/2 strawberry cake, 2 peach pies, 1 enormous peach cobbler, a lemon raspberry dessert, 3 raspberry cream pies with oreo crusts.

Also in that freezer are 2 emergency pizzas, shredded beef, 5 pans of pork ribs, chicken pot pie, chicken enchiladas, pot roast, cooked taco burger, grilled chicken wings, spinach lasagna, homemade meatballs, and various other meals I can’t remember preparing.

We have 3 weeks to eat it all, then the freezer is emptied, defrosted and turned off until next summer.

Today I will pick up 5 containers of goat cheese, from Wheyward Goat Cheese Company.  There is no better goat cheese in the universe.  www.wheywardgoatcheese.com

Really, truly, absolutely.

Let August begin!!!!