The Hunting Times

So today is actually Nick's 28th birthday (May 20), but we are just getting around to Kathy's birthday (May 02) meal due to our hectic schedules. She requested meatballs, onion soup, and apple crisp.  So Mama is in the kitchen making all those things and I suggest I make a batch of meatballs too. I grabbed a bag of pure venison ground meat (no seasonings and no pork added).  I mix in a stack of Ritz crackers and half a diced onion.  I use BBQ sauce for the liquid.  I add black pepper, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, crushed red pepper, seasoned salt, and a 1/2 cup of brown sugar.  I thoroughly mix all that up and roll them into balls of Heavenly Goodness. The balls I throw on the stovetop with teriyaki and Worcestershire.  I brown them up and put them in a baking pan.  I deglaze the pan with a bottle of Leinenkugal's Snowdrift Vanilla porter beer.  I add more brown sugar and BBQ sauce.  I let that boil until it is the consistency of syrup.  I pour that entire pan on to

I picked up Will a little after 11 am.  We drove into Frankfort and through the John Deere dealership to see the Big Tractors and the Baby Tractors.  All the way in we played "hiding."  He covers his eyes and says, "Meese hiding, Papaw."  I have to pretend to look all over the car for him - Grandma's seat, Sissy's seat, before finding him.  "Meese more hiding, Papaw" all the way in to town.  Then off to Taco Bell for lunch. I had three tacos and Will had a cheese roll-up.  Will saw me putting hot sauce on my tacos, so he naturally wanted some.  None of mine, I suggested.  Instead I got him some ketchup.  He ate his entire roll-up and then asked for more.  I bought another one - of which he ate two bites and then started just eating ketchup.  Oh well, tomatoes are classified as a fruit! We left Taco Bell and headed over to Rural King to view the Peep-Peeps (baby chickens, ducks, and turkeys).  Even before we got inside, Will saw a "Ga