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[Fields Mountain Farm]

Okay, now I must go to bed. Early morning grading waits for no one. Hugs all around. Be back soon!

Gnight..

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Im off to bed too .. Gnight all.. have a great night!

 

[AmyPaperlady]

I would've been done (or at least almost) with painting today, but the power went out for 7 hours just as I was in the middle of sanding my last wall I will finish our room before Tom and Tim get back, though! They're due back sometime Sunday. I've already decided that Grace's room will get painted after Tom's mom moves into her apartment (the girls will share Faith's room and Patty will have Grace's for a few days--at least she does have a place to move into she'll just need some furniture first).

 

[Alaskan]

Neither of my boys get to come home. .. sadness.

Blach!

I would've been done (or at least almost) with painting today, but the power went out for 7 hours just as I was in the middle of sanding my last wall I will finish our room before Tom and Tim get back, though! They're due back sometime Sunday. I've already decided that Grace's room will get painted after Tom's mom moves into her apartment (the girls will share Faith's room and Patty will have Grace's for a few days--at least she does have a place to move into she'll just need some furniture first).

Progress is good!

 

[room onthebroom]

Still awake...
No, these are the evacuation/leg cast chicks that are all mutts and as wild as they come... we finally wrangled up the cockerels and got them.penned up, but it's been bedlam out there.

In my mind, I think of those birds as The Phoenix Series.

Neither of my boys get to come home. .. sadness.

Dislike! How long do you get to keep them at Christmas?

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I'd be happy to take a deer to a processor & save the hassle & mess out in the cold, & I've done it, as recently as last season, but that makes for some very expensive meat, and not much of it by the time they discard so much of it. I took one to a processor years ago & everything I got back was in a single grocery bag.

How much did they charge?
Last year I had mine done.... But we've traded ...I did a brake job on his plow truck.
He did my deer..... Which included.
A Ham .... Mostly sausage.... Ground.
10 lbs of jerky. 10 pounds of snack sticks. .....I only had the bank straps made into steak. I don't eat a lot of venison steak anymore.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Happy Anniversary!
(I think LG has left BYC)




We usually hang them in the fridge for a few days, quarter and process a section at a time. But we ended up wasting a quarter last year by not getting it cut up fast enough. Too much going on.

Well I hope you are wrong.... Too many good people leave.... But I know I haven't seen her in a while. Hope I can get in touch to wish her a happy anniversary.
.....I usually process my deer right away. Depending on the weather.
I spent a week doing it this time. But it was cold outside. And I left it hang on my cherry picker.
I made a nice like deer hanger this year. Guess I'm really glad to have the time and ability to fabricate things.
Today I need to go out and cut the bed off my plow truck so I can get down to the frame and do some repairs work.
Just want to weld a patch in an area that is rusted out.

 

[kwhites634]

Oh no, how terrible!

That's Frederick Memorial for you! More than a few people around here go to Hagerstown, Carroll Co. or Gettysburg if it isn't an emergency.

 

[kwhites634]

I prefer cornbread dressing and giblet gravy too!

That will be nice!

I love good cornbread, but just give me sausage gravy over biscuits & I'm a happy camper.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Morning Ponders!!!

Our season begins Saturday morning. How is it you guys are processing by yourselves? Dh comes and gets me to help him drag it out. We hang it in the garage where he skins it before it freezes then it hangs for a few days. (we donate the hide) Next he quarters it. One quarter at a time is brought in, gets flopped onto the kitchen table and we have at it. Then it's my job to bag and label. Tenderloin for dinner of course, the rest out to the freezer. Clean up and repeat. (Usually the next day). Notice we don't cut thru the bones. Everyone around here does the "no boning" butcher method. All done easy peasy no hurry. When finished we put the ribcage and other scraps out in the middle of our field for the eagles. I can't imagine any females that actually live up here not knowing how to process a deer. Doubt we will process this year tho unless someone shares one with us. Pa's knees are shot and he's finally given up hunting himself, he just supports the boys when they come. (At least that's what he says so far)


Congrats on the anniversary. Aren't we fortunate to find spouses that could put up with us for so long?
Sorry to hear you're still fighting the cough. Hope it leaves you soon.

I never....NEVER.... Cut through the bone.
For one..... It's always been my understanding. That CWD is in the marrow.
They say to not cut the bone ... It'll release the prions into the meat and contaminate it.
And to be honest with you. Now that they found CWD in Delta county which I'm only 10 miles from the border of.
I'm not sure I'm gonna do a lot of deer hunting anymore.
Maybe I'll switch to bear..... Better eating anywaysi swear the best steaks I've ever had were bear.