Friday afternoon Daddy, Kyle, Luke, Lingo men, and various members of the Fish family slaughtered the three pigs, and hung them in the smoke house. The walk-in cooler is currently out-of-commission, but it was cold enough to leave the halves outside overnight.
Little Smoky was the first to go (Daddy thought he might be smarter than the others and runaway after the first shot).
They had all three done by 4:30pm, at the latest!Friday evening Mr. Draper, and the Evans' pulled in. After everyone had eaten, there was some conversation, and refreshed our butchering memories with the Meat Man (he could not only use someone to redo the videos, but the website too!) video.
Saturday morning Mama, Mrs. Evans, and Mrs. Fish started making a batch of soap, but I am not allowed to post any of the pictures Claire got of that process.
The men went out around 10:00am or so and started butchering.
A few of us were happily occupied inside, where it was warm!
Sausage-maker extraordinaires!
The packaging table was kept pretty busy most of the time.
Cuties!!!
1 comment:
I think a noteworthy aspect of the aforesaid weekend was the bananna pudding (made by the author of this blog). Thanks for your hospitality, Allelon. We had a great time.
-JL
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