Our new horse

Hey yall, we got a new horse, here is a video of her....

I DO HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY, THANKS FOR WATCHING......
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Sorry Not The Hog Butchering.wmv

Amazon Links

Hey y'all I am adding Amazon assocates to my Blog post and here are a few Items I have added for now, If you think I should add anything that will help just let me know thank you.....

Misty's Country cooking: Home made soaps and candels

Misty's Country cooking: Home made soaps and candels

Hog Butcherin Bee

Hey good morning, I have had a couple busy weeks, First we cut 3 trailer loads of slabs for fire wood.

And oh what a beautiful moon we had. Did you know the moon only comes this close to earth every 18 years? It was magnifacent.

Then we butchered our hogs, now that was a chore, but with the help of friends and neighbors we were able to get to gether at our preachers house and butcher 5 altoghther. That is a small number for them. They usually have a hog butchering bee in January and they have way more than 5, the whole community come together and do it. So do people far and wide show up just to watch, espically old timers. I guess it just takes them back to their way of life when they were young.

This is how we start. This is the main man in the valley who is a pro at butchering, so he does the finish work after the scalding and scraping. First he cuts the heads off, yes I know this sounds a little gross, but it is just a way of life and if you eat meat form the grocery store then it all starts bacially the same way.

Then the jaw meat.

Then it is time to cut in half.

Then we begine to seaperat the bacon.

Now this is a bucket of sasuage meat ready to grind after we mix sasuage seasoing in it.

This is our work area.

And three buckets of seperated meat, one of lard, sasuage meat and then fresh meat to can like you would bake as a roast, excepr it is already cut up and cooked once you can it.

There is also prok chops and ribs in there. And now the final package of our sasuage in the freezer.

Ok , I know I didn't get to get as many pictures in as I could, but they don't like to have their pictures taken. I also have video of it in 4 parts on my YouTube channel form the beggining to end. From the saclding to the canning. I hope this was infomational for you. I just wanted to share a little of our lifes.My YouTube channel is MistyShooter223 I will try to provide the link. Thank you and have a nice day. God Bless.   http://www.youtube.com/user/mmlrc6atgmailcom?feature=mhum#p/u/0/Jjyx6gU6shg

Our Garden Spring 2011 Part One

The pig pin

Hey today we worked on out new pig pin. Now that was a job. I'll just put up a few pictures.

This was after a long morning of hammering 16penny nails in all this hard oak. That took most of the morning.

We were putting the hog panels around it now. An dsecuring them. We sure don't want the pigs to get out.

Now that was a hard job. They got totaly free and we began the chase to catch them. Now if you think it was a easy job, then think again. I had the tail and my 2nd daughter Serenity had the ears. And we literaly women handled them.We got one in the biggest, and it got free while we were after the smaller one. So here we go again. I would have taken pictures but all hands were on deck. We finally got them after about 1/2 hour. It seemed like hours.

Now after the whole neighborhood thought we were butchering very loudly, I am ready to have fresh sasuage, bacon and pork chops. Then I will can the rest in our pressure canner so I have no worries of freezer burn or if the power goes out I will not have spoiled meat. And if that does happen then I will just take out what I do have in the freezer and can it. It is a win, win situation. Y'all have a good day now. God Bless.


I also wanted to ask every one to say a prayer for those in Japan who have to deal with this devastation and great loss. They have been put through so much with the earth quake, the Tsunami, and now all this radiation.