Dinner Table Talks

The unexpected death of a close friend was the second blow after Joe's mom, and we spend a little time reflecting on one of the brightest stars we ever saw shine: Lisa Joy McDaniel. Post-freeze soups and garden analysis, our contributions to an amazing Christmas lunch, an update on our upcoming trip to New Orleans and a great Random Question: If you could move anywhere in America, where would you move?

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Recorded on Christmas Eve in the middle of a 'Land Cleaning Freeze' with two new sheep, 10 new chickens, family on the way...just the huge amount of distraction for Joe to keep his mind off things. Add the deep planning phase of an upcoming vacation and there's zero room to think or process funeral homes, cremation, family and the 'language of death.'

Joe recounts our difficult past week with the passing of his mom. We catch up with Aislynn's hiking trip to Enchanted Rock from two weeks ago and our new sheep have arrived at the farm!

In one of the biggest weeks of our lives, it's best to leave this week private....for now. In coming weeks we'll share it all with you, but first...we process it all. To repeat the last line of this week's show: We love and appreciate you and we'll see you next week.

Aislynn doesn't get a script this week and the conversation goes allllll over the place from news about getting sheep to excitement while we begin planning a road trip to N'awlins. Putting $100 on 44, hiking for Aislynn's birthday, Indian food, fajitas, shoeless house leadership, and pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins.

What's the go-to dish that you take to the Thanksgiving potluck? We talk about Thanksgiving lunch, a Friendsgiving event at the Farm, all the kids in town, World Cup soccer, catching more skunks, and Aislynn's recent reflection work.

Adventures in skunk life continue on the farm when someone gets sprayed. Aislynn vends at a local Farmers' Market which gets her thinking about the state of Farmers' Markets in our area. Don't miss this view from the inside. Eating food off the floor, a week filled with soup, a power outage and a corrupted podcast file. It's a very busy Dinner Table!

Aislynn and Joe trapped a skunk which led to a much larger conversation about energy on the farm. Then their talk about the new show, Drink Masters, leads to a conversation about just about everything. Dinner Table Talks: where conversations about everything abound. 

Aislynn's got a lot on her mind and it most of comes out during today's Dinner Table Talk. From a new show that she's enjoying to our recent Fall Farm Day event here on the farm, today's new episode is chock full of philosophy.

We've had, as Joe puts it, some 'bad juju' in our chicken coop and run recently including four untimely deaths. Hear the whole story, from possums to raccoons, along with a love letter to gangsta rap, who we'd like to see live in concert, gluten-free chicken and dumplings, and our favorite forms of art. What a Dinner Table we've set for you this week!

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