Visitor, butcher class and beer

LeeAnn Stuhlmiller came for a visit the first week of September. LeeAnn and I did some hiking in Vermont a few year back. While she was here, my Leanne, Coach and I did a hike along the Seven Sisters.

https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/walk/seaford-to-eastbourne/

We took an early break to enjoy the views.

one thing for sure we did not get close to the edge.

Can you tell we have a happy dog.

The view inland was like this for the five miles we did.

As you can see we had a great day. There are seven hills we would walk over, the last can be see in the distance.

There were a lot of people doing this hike, young and old.

A view back at three of the sisters with one of the younger ones on the left.

and a view ahead of three more.

This is one of the old guys walking.

After the last sister we came to a very small town with a pub. We did stop to partake in a pint.

A view of what we walked. There was a set of stairs to beach, it was very rocky.

LeeAnn and Leanne and the great view.

We had to walk a mile to the nearest town to catch a bus. This is our last view of the beach area.

Going the other way we could see the town we were walking to. It was a great day for a walk.

A few days later Leanne went off to Charlotte for a business trip and LeeAnn went off to France and Italy to finish off her vacation.

After they left I would take a pig butchering class. We started with a half of a pig and its head and the instructor would show us the different cuts of meat.

We also got to prepare a roast to take home

Mine didn't turn out half bad. It was too big for one meal so I ended up cutting it in two

While the instructor was teaching his co worker was cooking us dinner. A pork roast with crackling, potatoes and wine. Crackling is the crisp browned skin of the pig.

To finish out the week I went to a beer festival. It was one of the bigger ones and I tried a few of them. Just like trying wine, if you didn't like it you dumped it down the drain. One that I tried was a 12% cherry stout----it was nasty---down the drain it went.