Meat!

The meat is here. Yay!

 From this.

 To this.  All this, steaks, roasts, ribs and 96 packages of hamburger at 97 cents a pound. We still had a pound of store bought burger in the freezer and that was $3.76 a pound. Wow! We are happy.

 Ok, so this isn't meat, but I know how much you all like dog pics. Relaxing together by the stove. Is that a "Red Shoe"?

Heide staring at the flames. I told her not to do that cause Mick did and it gave him scary green and glowing eyes.

Missing chicken update and cow pics

Yesterday Gramma and I had to go down to Stillwater to the eye doctor. We usually go to Forest Lake, but I need a special test every so often and the thing they use is only in the Stillwater office. Anyway we were gone most of the day, so we left the chickens in the coop. When we got home I went to check for eggs and there was an egg outside the coop on the barn floor. Every once in awhile one of the young hens will do this instead of in the box. Well, I  thought "How did we miss this egg last night"? Brought it in and told Gramma and she said that maybe the missing hen laid it. This morning I went down and sure enough there was our lost girl, in the barn. We are happy.

 Jack and the girls.

 Here's Le Beef getting his daily minerals.

 BurgerBoy doing what he does best.

 Pregnant Rita getting fatter.

 Rhoda taking it easy.

 Here's Red Cow giving me her "Get outa my face" face.

And here's our main boy, "Frank the Tank". Nice bunch huh? Oh yeah.

Jerky and Stuff

Jerky time!

 Here we go. Lovely venison.

 The secret ingredients.

 All mixed together.

 Ready for a 24 hour soak. Doesn't look so appetizing like this does it?

 Into the drier.

 3hrs and 10 minutes later, jerky. Yummo. Due to the fact we only got one deer and Ted took some of the meat for grinding, no one gets any this year. Sorry.

 Here's a weird egg we got the other day. All finished except for the very end. Strange. One of our hens has gone missing. Checked everywhere, even where Ethel was found, but no chicken. I suppose a fox, or coyote, or wolf, or bobcat, or some other varmint got her. We'll look some more, but I don't hold out hope. Oh well, such is life in the country.

Here's a pic of a non-digital thermometer that "was not" put in a freezer. I win.

Cow Shed II

 Here's  pic of the horses and cows all getting along. In the background you can see the cow shed.

 This is what Gramma and I did today. We're pretty tired and sore. More work than Gramma figured, but I couldn't have done it without her.

Now the cows have a nice shelter from the wind, rain and snow. Oh yeah, that first pic? All done. The last two days Aksel has decided that it's fun to chase cows. What a stinker. So tonight we seperated them again. Oh well we tried. Two weeks till meat. Yummo. Stay tuned.