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[pennyJo1960]

We do not butcher here either BF said she did enough when he was young ... if I pushed he would but why not worth it

 

[microchick]

Last time I helped I was 8 years old and helped my mother pluck freshly butchered birds then gut. I can still remember the smell.

I worked surgical scrub in the OB department of the local hospital when I graduated from nurse's training. Those smells do not bother me. I watched them do DH's scalp surgery last week and got a good downwind whiff of the cautery. Didn't bother me either.

I love my birds but chicken innards just plain stink.

 

[ronott1]

Hubby says he feels like he might be getting a cold and has been sneezing a lot the past 2 days. Hoping i don't catch it.
He helped me move my completed projects out of the workshop so i will have room for the new saw.
And i installed another nest box in the chicken coop, them covered it in siding so it matches the coop. Tomorrow i hope to put the few pieces of siding on to finish the front.

I hope it is a cold and not Influenza A!

 

[ronott1]

Last time I helped I was 8 years old and helped my mother pluck freshly butchered birds then gut. I can still remember the smell.

I worked surgical scrub in the OB department of the local hospital when I graduated from nurse's training. Those smells do not bother me. I watched them do DH's scalp surgery last week and got a good downwind whiff of the cautery. Didn't bother me either.

I love my birds but chicken innards just plain stink.

Pretty much all innards smell like that. Chickens have less than a deer though.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Last time I helped I was 8 years old and helped my mother pluck freshly butchered birds then gut. I can still remember the smell.

I worked surgical scrub in the OB department of the local hospital when I graduated from nurse's training. Those smells do not bother me. I watched them do DH's scalp surgery last week and got a good downwind whiff of the cautery. Didn't bother me either.

I love my birds but chicken innards just plain stink.

Have to agree there last year Ma had 250 birds to slaughter use to them easy when 5 or so neighbors came to help as they paid to have some. Us alone the outfit in Tacoma had closed that would do them all your dropped them alive came back had bagged birds waiting ended up her, Wayne (my step Dad) me and my city slicker first husband boy what a site him at the crick sending chum Ma plucked and dunked Wayne took off the heads and I gutted and help pluck I did not eat chicken for almost 10 years

 

[ronott1]

We spent the first night with family friends (same one with the wedding) then I got to drive the bus from Frankfurt to Dresden. barf. Luckily, since we got here, we just walked every where (we rented an apartment for the 8 days we will be in Dresden). I did have to drive last night and this morning to get us to church. .. blasted city driving. one intersection had so many different traffic lights...I thought I was supposed to go when I wasn't. .. then I started to drive down a tram way ...had to back up and get back on the car road. Luckily the car is now PARKED again. whew!

We have been walking about looking at the city. .. we went to 1 museum the first day.. the traffic museum. Awesome! Antique cars and bikes and trains!!

Next day we went to the Historical Gruenes Gewölbe. Fancy antique tresury of the Kings of Saxony. Saxony was a powerful kingdom for hundreds of years. The residence palace of Saxony was built in 14-something and has been wonderfully restored after its destruction in WW2.

cool stuff



The great stuff with German everything (beer, dessert, and food) it varies GREATLY from one town to the next. So... one place will produce desserts that are mostly whipped cream, the next will produce desserts that are mostly yogurt based, etc. pretty fun.

Dresden being a big town serves a bit of everything. So we have been eating the normal German meal of assorted bread rolls with soft cheese to spread on the bread and then lots of sliced sausage.

Sounds like a great trip!

 

[ronott1]

German chocolate!!! I LOVE German Chocolate!!!
Of course it's not sweet like american sugar and wax chocolate. You can actually taste the chocolate parts and they are yummy!

It is actually German's Chocolate cake, created by an American with the last name of German. The chocolate used is called sweet chocolate. It is an American desert and they would not know what you were talking about if you looked for it over there.

We had this come up as a Trivia question at a work party.

 

[Alaskan]

@Alaskan, my dad's people migrated from Germany. He was second generation. There was a village bearing the family name that was burned to the ground by the Nazi's for harboring Jews during the war. Luckily my paternal grandfather and grandmother's families had immigrated long before then. I saw what they did to such towns recently on the history channel. All people, animals, were killed then the town burned. I've always wanted to go there and try to find the site where it once stood.

Since I didn't have to live through it.... I find all of that stuff fascinating. I loved listening to the stories from the people who had lived through it all.

My dad's side is German... but he is 6th generation Texan.. Pretty early on that side ran to Texas... it was interesting reading their old letters... even when LOTS of them died coming to Texas, they wrote back to Germany to siblings that hadn't yet come over, and said how they had to come. They loved the FREEDOM!!!!! And said the hardships and risk of death was worth it.

I enjoyed reading a poem one had written about how they enjoyed the German traditions that they were free to continue in Texas, but were SO VERY GLAD to be living here instead of over there.

The last one to come to Texas came before WW1... but we kept in contact with the relatives still in Germany.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I do know that there is still Elftman the family name still there it was my great, grandfather his generation is the the first here the Britton came as indentured servants back in the early, early years

 

[chickadoodles]

My 4th great grandfather and his wife came from Germany about 1810.
and 3 of my family lines came from Ireland and one line came is descended from The Pinzon brothers that owned the Nina and Pinta ships who came with Columbus from Spain.