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We haven’t been posting much because we’ve been getting ready for the Iron County Fair. It’s a four day event that will draw 30,000 people to the carnival, petting zoo, displays, vendors, bull riding, and other rodeo events. We’ve got a booth to sell our cheese– probably the biggest event we’ll do all year. So we’re madly producing and packaging cheese to sell at the fair.
Hopefully we’ll see you there!
Tonight
Windy
Lo 41 °F
Wind Advisory Hazardous Weather Outlook Short Term Forecast
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 41. Windy, with a southwest wind 29 to 32 mph decreasing to between 17 and 20 mph.
Winds could gust as high as 46 mph.
Friday’s Summer Jam ranged from folk to southern rock to Zeppelin covers to death metal to rockabilly. Here’s one of Saturday’s musicians: Emilee Ann Hanks. I’m sure the day will be just as diverse.
The CNN headline says, “Feed likely source of salmonella in eggs, federal officials say.” This as the egg recall expands to 550 million eggs from two mega-egg-producers in Iowa, with tainted eggs traced to 23 states and almost 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning.
Kind of makes you wonder what those mega-farmers feed their chickens. Sustainable Table reports that industrial poultry feeds commonly contain post-slaughter animal wastes, as well as antibiotics– but clearly not enough to eliminate a salmonella infection.
In contrast, when we had laying hens, we fed them a mixture of grains with no animal by-products or medications. And our chickens got plenty of sunshine and greenery, since they had the run of the yard.
Half a billion infected eggs… sounds to me like a great argument for knowing your local farmer!
Playing this weekend at Summer Jam in Cedar City, Noon to Midnight Friday & Saturday. And we’ll be there with our cheese!
Check out Friday’s opening act, folk/rock musician Chas Holingshead, too!
Friday Chance Tstms Hi 71 °F |
Friday Night  Chance Tstms Lo 53 °F |
Saturday Chance Tstms Hi 67 °F |
Saturday Night  Chance Tstms Lo 49 °F |
This does not look promising for Summer Jam in the park.
National Weater Service: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Paragonah&state=UT&site=SLC&textField1=37.9383&textField2=-112.648
This Friday and Saturday is Summer Jam, a free rock music event organized by BACA (Bikers Against Child Abuse). It’s held in the park in Cedar City, the same location as Groovefest. Among the performers will be Crippled Stripper (above) and a dozen or so other bands. It sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun!
So why doesn’t anyone know about Summer Jam? The Cedar City website has a link to last year’s event, but nary a mention of the 2010 Summer Jam. And I haven’t been able to find an event web page, either, though I found a MySpace page for last year’s event (many of the bands will be the same, so this is a great resource to hear them). An internet search did turn up this article at IndependentPublishing.com– not exactly one of the major outlets.
When I tell people we’ll be selling cheese at Summer Jam, they all ask me, “What’s Summer Jam? Where is it held?” So far, not one has known of the event’s existence.
Is this a case of poor promotion by the event organizers? Small town politics? Who knows.
I do know that there’s going to be a two-day concert this week– and we’ll be there selling cheese. Pass it on!
From the National Weather Service
Today Heavy Rain Hi 71 °F |
Tonight Heavy Rain Lo 56 °F |
Thursday Chance Tstms Hi 72 °F |
Thursday Night Chance Tstms Lo 55 °F |
Friday Slight Chc Tstms Hi 77 °F |
Friday Night  Slight Chc Tstms Lo 56 °F |
Doesn’t this look like it will be fun?
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