M&M...playing with Chef

I was talking to a local Bed and Breakfast owner a couple days ago and he used a phrase that I totally loved...(I am taking a week off to go hang out with the Dalai Lama and had made reservations at his B&B for my week hiatus)

He asked if I was a "localvarian"

Oh crap...if I am anything I am totally a localvarian....I love what Mineral Point, Iowa County and just southern Wisconsin has to offer....I wish that I could offer more to my community but I try to do as much as possible...am I a "localvarian"? yeah you bet your butt...I love what my little community offers...

Aside of being the local guy, some that keep on reading my stuff knows how local I really am...

I am not one of those Chef's that say I am this and that and am anything but...

I am involved with the great stuff the Mineral Point Lion's Club does, with any benefit that I can get ahold of and any donation that I can provide to the community to make us a bigger, happier place...

I posted the brat feed for the Mineral Point Rescue Squad earlier, and I did the same "Stump the Chef" giveaway for a woman that is suffering from Cancer and donated the same class...

So I guess this is the foreward to my story...

Some Pointers know me, there are a bunch that do not, so here, in part; is my story...

My family....10 kids....some of them affected by mental retardation: my mother made scientific history for discoveries made in Cornelia DeLange Syndrome (CDLS), for this I am honored, it made me the Man, Father, Brother, Friend that I am today (thank you Joanne, MaryEllen, Kathleen, Daniel and Carl Matthew...my affected siblings...you helped me to become the man I am today....forever yours....your brother...Michael)

Today I had the honor to hang out with two of my latest Point friends that I will only refer to as M&M....got talking with them last night and wanted M&M to come hang out with me and play with Chef in his kitchen....I really had a blast (and a good cry) so here are pics of Cheffy, M&M playing around in my world making pizza dough and pasties....

Some things in life are not able to be replaced....this is one of them....thanks M&M.....I had a lot more fun than you did....You centralized my existance and I am proud to call you my friends...

Chef