We’ve talked recently about cooking when car camping in this post. One of the things you need to think about is what you can cook. A two burner camp stove gives you lots of options. One of things you can do is bake fresh biscuits.
As we are over 200 Family History posts and nearly 4 years in the blog, I thought I might share a little insight on the software I use and how it helps me to determine who to write about.
I’m posting this a day early. Tuesday is Election Day in the US. Whatever your feelings about the candidates might be, Election Day is your opportunity to do something about it. If you can vote, please go vote. I know we’ve written about this before, but it bears repeating. Please go vote.
Richard Mendenhall was born on November 1, 1837. He is Walt’s fifth great-grandfather on the Hoel side of the family.
It’s fun to tie together a couple of hobbies. This post adds a bit of role playing games to cooking. Today, we are making Rat on a Stick.

Bessie May Trevett was born in October 25, 1889 near Emerson, Nebraska. Bessie May is my (Michelle’s) great grandmother.
This last weekend we were at ICON, Iowa’s longest running science fiction convention. We have gone every year we could since at least 2001.
Joseph Fedler was born on October 18, 1929 in West Point, Iowa. His daughter married Walt’s second cousin on the Wellman side of the family.
On October 11, 1865, Johann Heinrich Boeding married Elizabeth Becker. They are distant relations on the Link side of Walt’s family.