Located on the Ohio River in Jeffersonville, the Cast Iron Steak House is a quality restaurant with great appetizers, 🍺 drinks, and entrees.

I finished the weekend with a round of December ⛳️ golf, not mention pitching some BP (batting practice) to Lawson this morning before ⛪️ church.

After Lawson hit, he wanted to pitch to me. He said, repeating my coaching, “ level cut, level cut” and even stopped, picked up the bat, looking at me and said “level swing.” When I made contact, he was truly excited for me. 😊

Heidi, the clear leader of this unit, is exhausted and in bed by 8:30. Thank goodness for her!!! Shd hosted the Hackman Christmas Saturday and we went to the Melloncamp Christmas 🎄 at the Joe Jackson Hotel 🏨 in Vallonia. Cool spot for a gathering. Conveniently located across the street from The Bluebird.

Finally, I had lost 12 pounds on Weight Watchers since September and have gained 8 of the back in the lady two weeks.

Nina’s Kitchen was open for a late brunch on Sunday night. She just couldn’t think of anything to fix so she did breakfast. 🍳

I started with the pink fluff. Some combination of jello, cool whip, bananas 🍌 and strawberries 🍓. Whoop! Whoop!🙌

The pie slice is a quiche with spinach, eggs 🍳, 🥓 bacon and 🧀 cheese. Yep!👍

Then came the biscuit and gravy 🥘 casserole. Biscuits covered with gravy, sausage and cheese. Boom 💥!

It might not be on Weight Watchers, but since I hiked the pinnacle and skipped lunch, I think I might be ok.✅

We started the day with a hike along Lake James at Pokagon State Park. Then it was on to Marblehead Lighthouse on Lake Erie.

We had lunch at The Galley. And come to find out from our waitress, JoJo, it is the walleye capital of the world.

We shared these huge filets and also had some clam chowder. All was delicious!!!😋

We drove on to Cuyahoga Valley National Park 🏞️.

We will further explore the Cuyahoga Valley tomorrow.

What a day!!!

We had some good food at Jed’s, however, the highlights were Oubache and Chain O’ Lakes State Parks.

We started at Oubache and hiked the CCC Challenge. Five miles of searching, climbing, hiking and learning about the Civilian Conservation Corps.

We also hiked 1.7 miles at Chain O’ Lakes and are spending the night at Pokagon State Park and hiking in the morning before traveling to Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio Saturday.

Heidi had over 20,000 steps today while I had 19,000. More of the same tomorrow.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace.

Former Colts running back Edgerin James has a talented daughter that sang the National Anthem. He was there when Eyahna sang a beautiful rendition of the song. The best part for me was when the flag bearers started waving the huge flag when she sang “does that star spangled banner yet wave.”

Sophie had help from Lawson blowing out candles. But how about that beautiful cookie 🍪 cake that Heidi made!?!

Although the dessert was a highlight, the main course of T-bones and ribeyes 🥩, baked potatoes 🥔 and corn 🌽 was fantastic , just too busy with babies to take pictures of all that.

The Outlaw 🍔 is a dandy sandwich consisting of. Half pound beef patty, BBQ sauce, 🥓 bacon, cheddar cheese, and an onion 🧅 ring. The 🥩 steak knife 🔪 like a dagger through the awesome bun added to the presentation!

On the side I had sweet potato 🍠 waffle fries with marshmallow dip. The entire package was way above average!

If you show Ken Hackman the above picture he would want the mini barn in focus. He did an outstanding job refurbishing it for us. (or maybe even show more of the dog fence he put up while visiting over Memorial Day.)

However, let’s start with the half 🥓 bacon half beef burgers from Darlage Custom Meats. They were seasoned with garlic salt and applewood 🍎 rub and then grilled on indirect heat on my Weber Grill over charcoal and smoking 💨 applewood 🍎 from an old apple tree that blew over in the parsonage yard in Wegan, Indiana.

I did the burgers while Heidi did the corn and zucchini and we, along with Liam, were all very satisfied with the outcome.

Fresh garden vegetables make any meal both rewarding and delicious!!!