Yesterday was the first field day I've led in awhile at work. I had one of the summer students with me.It got some stuff done but wasn't super productive; we're learning to estimate lengths and diameters from 7.5cm to 50m or so in various configurations which requires lots of guessing then measuring. It's easy enough to just to measure first, but ( Read more... )

I have so much to write about from the last... has it only been a couple days? There's no natural starting point except for the butcher.

So.

My freezers are full, as is my fridge. I have roughly 86lbs of meat into cure, 22lbs of chunks to be made into sausage, 18lbs of ground, many chops and roasts, 8 or 10L of soap lard, 2.5L eating lard plus maybe ( Read more... )

Wow. Well, it's been a bit.

Josh and I didn't get a bear; we went out for a day and then came home and killed a pig (one of Penny's first piglets, Apricot's sister) and made a whole lot of sausage. I'd told him that I do have a lot of meat so I didn't feel the need to spend a lot of time looking for more and he pretty much agreed.

So that was a 13- ( Read more... )