Drive through the cawntry

My research project has come to a point where I need to get a fair amount of some particluar proteins. I "borrowed" some from a cell biology lab a couple weeks ago, but I've already used them up. The original paper describing the purification of these proteins says to start with 100 grams of calf thymus, a.k.a. beef sweetbreads. When this came up in lab meeting Friday, Mike said, "Too bad we're not in Texas, it'd be easy to find a slaughterhouse." "Yeah!" I agreed. "Back home I know exactly where to go. Moak's Meat Market in Port Arthur. As a kid I used to get freaked out by Mr. Moak's missing fingers!"

So I posted a question on the Universal Hub, and yesterday morning I had my answer: The Blood Farm in Groton. Heh heh, their name is Blood and they run a meat business. I bet they are pretty sick of hearing that.

Evan & I went over there to scout it out. Unfortunately their retail meats office had closed at 1pm. But I'm glad we did the trip since I had never been out that way and needed a co-pilot/navigator. Plus it was a nice day for a drive in the countryside. I realized I had never seen New England farm fields in winter, all covered in a blanket of snow. I need to get out of the city more!