Time to Wrap up our Day of Butchering!

“……PIGGY LINE DANCING……”

The photo above was taken earlier on in the day. The guys came in with the hog legs and were about to put them on the table top when I said lay them on the tarp under the table. I

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“MEET your MEAT”

Do you know where your meat comes from?

Who actually raised the meat you bought today at your local grocery store or butcher shop? What was the type of meat you bought – chicken, beef, pork or other type of meat fed? Was it fed grain that

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This past Saturday we finally were able to butcher the hogs we raised all summer. Being we don’t have a walk in cooler as a butcher would have to hang the carcasses to cool down we had to wait for the temps to drop to where the day time temps weren’t above 40 and night

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………..and the ninety and nine pigs were safe in their pen as the prodigal wandering pig came home!

You can read about Chester Pig here and here if you’ve not seen the previous postings yet. We came home from town Wednesday evening to find a paper folded and stuck in our front

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Finding out that pigs can be very particular, even finicky!

-A JAR A DAY WILL KEEP THE VETERINARIAN AWAY-

Pass me the pickles, please…….

This is my end of the day – vegging out – before hiking off to bed. Just finished a very long day of bread baking, picking

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Learning first hand what it is like to raise a pig. I definitely was contemplating the other day this whole pig adventure not only for the meat but for plowing up new garden plots. I also was contemplating whether I liked being so popular with the pig when it came to her snorting

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You may recall our adventure with Chester the Pig. If not you can read about it here. Now that Chester has never been found and it’s about a month later with neighbors that knew we were looking for the him and multiple searchings……….we are back into giving it a a go again. It

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This is the story of Chester the Pig. Right now a sad story of which we are praying will have a happy ending………..continued below. I actually didn’t even want to post a thing. But since I’ve posted previously that I would have updates on Chester and

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~ Millie the Cat who helps me garden ~

This is probably the very best picture I have ever gotten of this cat up close of her beautiful eyes. She will invariably always look the other way or close her eyes when ever I have tried in the past. For some reason

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I guess all those years as a trumpet player paid off !!

ENJOY the Missouri 2008 State Champion hog caller….

Loved this with respect to the fact were getting hog.

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In for a short break. It’s in the low 80′s, sunny clear skies,
very little to no wind,
the sun is intense and I just needed to get out of if for a bit.
Spent quite sometime this morning determining the exact spot for the next garden plot 60 ft. x 100 ft.. We got

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Chester the Pig ~
Duroc Boar………our future garden plow!

We headed out to our sons this afternoon to see our half of the pig.
He’ll be heading to our place as soon as we get fencing,
house, etc.. in place.

He’s actually coppery red in color.
The lighting was off back in the

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Musings from a Stonehead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

To read his article titled

“Your pigs are a threat to the human race!”

I got my morning laugh!