Processing Day Support Group ~ HELP us through the Emotions PLEASE!

[ronott1]

LOL how on earth did you keep ahold of them! ha ha ha <picturing slippery fish and seeing attempt at holding tail>

Big ones, with both hands....

 

[Ruthster55]

.....So, I'm walking along my way to town and see neighbor's motorcycle parked at another neighbor's house. Needed to tell the neighbor something minor about having the fence charger repaired.

Discover that the neighbor is in the middle of helping the other neighbor butcher an entire cow! They were about half done when I got there, and had been at it about four hours. They had the cow sectioned into the primal cuts, but hadn't cut the steaks yet.

Mind you, this is the second day of Lent here, and my mind is more on the garden and doing quick 'n' easy fish and veggie meals....

Um, I guess they're pretty serious here with their meat-eating.....

 

[chicken junky]

I went to zoo school and some animals especially hawks and vultures wouldn't eat unless fresh and warm and we had to take rats and mice and hold by tail and whip them against rail just like everyone else, instant death they don't even twitch. Funny I forgot about that and was wondering what you do the other day when my two were doing so bad, thanks

 

[Beekissed]

.....So, I'm walking along my way to town and see neighbor's motorcycle parked at another neighbor's house. Needed to tell the neighbor something minor about having the fence charger repaired.

Discover that the neighbor is in the middle of helping the other neighbor butcher an entire cow! They were about half done when I got there, and had been at it about four hours. They had the cow sectioned into the primal cuts, but hadn't cut the steaks yet.

Mind you, this is the second day of Lent here, and my mind is more on the garden and doing quick 'n' easy fish and veggie meals....

Um, I guess they're pretty serious here with their meat-eating.....

As are we!

We butchered a small heifer in our own yard, as well as sheep and we also strip down deer like a chop shop.

 

[LAChick]

As are we!

We butchered a small heifer in our own yard, as well as sheep and we also strip down deer like a chop shop.

Ok, now I am in complete awe!

I"m not worthy!!!!!

 

[Beekissed]

Ok, now I am in complete awe!

I"m not worthy!!!!!

Nah....yer just not hungry!

Here's a few pics of dressing and skinning the young heifer...my mother is doing the cutting work.

 

[LAChick]

Nah....yer just not hungry!

Here's a few pics of dressing and skinning the young heifer...my mother is doing the cutting work.

Great job..............& what a cool mom!..........we sent ours to the slaughter house........then the local butcher.

 

[JerseyHen]

Nah....yer just not hungry! Here's a few pics of dressing and skinning the young heifer...my mother is doing the cutting work.

Your mom is my new hero! Go mom!

 

[Beekissed]

Your mom is my new hero! Go mom!

If you only knew how many deer she has gutted, skinned and processed....literally hundreds. And chickens as well. She had 9 kids and started...mind you...started homesteading when she was my age (48) with 3 kids still in their teens and one still in grade school(me!). We moved back to a place in the woods with no house or utilities and built simple log homes, carried water from a spring at first and later from a hand dug well and they didn't get electricity back there until 12 yrs later and still didn't have plumbing. Grew all our own foods, harvested from the woods, had livestock, etc.

She would can up to 500 qts of food each year on a wood cookstove..in the heat of summer. You have no idea how much of a hero this lady is to me. At 79 she line dances and square dances several times a week, does all her own lawn maintenance...3 acres of meadow, a quarter mile driveway through the woods and pathways back through the 15 acres of land. She weedeats, mows, prunes and clears the deadwood~has her own chainsaw. She won't even let me do any of it, she loves it that much...although she does let me use the chainsaw and the woodsplitter now.

She also does her own roofing, home repairs such as plumbing and electrical wiring and basic car maintenance and detailing. No one can detail a car like she can.

They don't make 'em like that any more...that model has become obsolete and will be forever out of production. Yeah...she's MY hero too!

 

[Tomtommom]

Great job..............& what a cool mom!..........we sent ours to the slaughter house........then the local butcher.

Wow that sounded so wrong

I had to reread it. You did WHAT with your mom?

I'm so special....