Hi! Deirdre is test driving a little electric cart to see if it would work to cover the ten minute walk over to the Organic Butcher to establish a new supply chain for supplies as this crisis season unfolds.

The crisis overseas has evolved into a curious status of occasional kintetic events, like the Hellfire missile Centcom authorized the F/A-18 to put into the engine room of a persistent and irritating Iranian tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The Ukrainians put at least one drone into Saint Petersburg to mar the arrivals at Mr. Putin’s big economic conference. Another Black eye for Moscow.

Dee says she is tracking things due to the 24×7 nature of the crisis. We have people in and out of the conference room and the Cube Farm all around the clock, and that has led her to establish Galley Guidelines. She is prepared to supervise one large meal daily, normally around the time the Day Boys are starting to look interested in Happy Hour and the Evening Crue is starting to settle into some late-night dozing in front of the Flat Screen.

For big meals, you know the options. I did the write-up for the King Ranch casserole series that led her to authorize procurement of the Ranch Classic Cookbook, which I will ransack for meal ideas to fit the rough and ready Boomers and our more advanced Zooms coming up to replace them.

But here is the deal. Deirdre has been agitated about the fifteen minute walking meme. Our Section Leader Miles is determined to publish a ‘FIFTEEN MINUTE COUNTY” book based on what life was like at the old HQ in Arlington. Over here in Fairfax at the new place, we have a Whole Foods literally on the corner below the building, and that was just one of the reasons we selected the new place.

But let’s be frank: there are specialty chains that end here and go back to exactly what Dee want’s for specialties. Which led to Organic Butcher and their direct connection to Autumn Olive farm out in Shenandoah for the pork products she prefers.

With a quarterly purchase from Wyoming pure of a quarter or half cow, that eliminates the back and forth and makes storage easier to manage for useful consumption.

But that meant a cart smaller than the SUV was going to be useful, and there are a couple things coming up this summer that will need some specialty main courses. Like the first round of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association championships which will be held on 12 June, next Friday.

Sadly, the game is after happy hour on the Left Coast, so Deirdre is not going to cook. There will be some snacks left for those at the Conference Room, but The Boys swear they are going to do the match over at Ireland’s Four Corners.

So, you can see the number of things up in the air. It is summer. It is time for it!

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