It's been a busy yet productive day. Our dishwasher quit working last month, and yesterday the oven quit working. So today I decided that I needed to do some repairs. I checked with an appliance repair and it would be $120 just to show up. While I try to use other local businesses as much as possible David and I decided since we didn't have a job to go to we'd fix them ourselves. It took us about 30 minutes to diagnose the oven problem, the oven igniter doesn't work and for $43.00 I was able to order a replacement that will be here in 2 days. The dishwasher was an electrical connection that had vibrated loose causing a short that melted the wire. A short piece of wire. a connector, and less than an hours worth of our time and the dishwasher is fixed. I fiqured that I saved at least $300 so it certainly made today a good day.
Tomorrow muzzleloading seasons opens and I need to shoot 3 more does and David needs to get his limit. Ten deer just barely provide the amout of venison I would like to put up each year. David and I no longer shoot any bucks that are less than the ones we have hanging on the wall, so if either of us score a buck it should be a dandy. It's unfortunate the everyone hunting around us shoot anything brown or we all would soon be seeing much nicer buck. However, just because they don't practice deer management doesn't preclude us from doing what we feel to be right. I will be pickling the hind quarters from two deer to make a meat that is very similar to corned beef and I also intend to brine and then smoke cook at least two hinds. I've never tried it before but I believe that when it is fully cooked, cooled and thinly sliced it should make for some incredible "sammiches".
