[bgill]

After not going to the grocery store since before Thanksgiving so I could scrape up enough to pay the property taxes last week, we celebrated with a nice family dinner tonight, too. The main course featured $3.37/lb TX raised beef served with a hearty country gravy prepared milk from AR and savory pan drippings, a delightful 50 cent can of peas canned in AZ and about 60 cents of buttery mashed Idaho potatoes. For dessert, I made a scrumptous cobbler from scratch of runty little TX peaches picked out of the road last summer because the neighbor didn't think they were any good. The service was 50 year old antique melmac plates and chilled spring water from the well was sipped from a bbq joint's plastic cups. The slobber monsters enjoyed a few bites, too. However, they didn't dress for dinner though one was wearing a light lingering fragrance of pepe le pew from last week's encounter. Be it known that not a dime of anyone's $$$ was spent but our own.

[LegendHasIt]

Excellent post.

[Mortrey]

By God, I’d rather eat at your house than the SpiteHouse.

The food would taste better and the company would would be MUCH better than the frauds in the People’s House.

[Iron Munro]

Mr. & Mrs. Taxpayer's Sunday Dinner In Obamaland

[caww]

Absolutely beautifuly written denoting a sharp contrast between paying your own way and that on the taxpayers dollar.

I’d come to dinner at your house any day rather than to a “table of strife”.....and I’ve been to some pretty fancy dinners!

Be proud you’ve made your own way...I am too... and this by the Grace of God!