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28 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes

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The dogs were happy to see us, as were little kitten and Tiger.

The joint is none the worse for wear, though high on my list is vacuuming.

There’s a deer shoulder in one of the freezers!

Percolator coffee. And lots of it.

Five days until Christmas! I’ve decided to get the Spode out.

Signing off at 6:42am central. That’s +/- 0 in real life.

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    1. Today was sausage making day— including 3 pounds of Venison Sausage!

      We are enjoying being home and our routine. I’m old enough to remember when the younins made fun of routines. But they are satisfying. And they free up so much time! I mean, imagine if you had to negotiate who washes and who dries every single time!!

  2. 5 days…doesn’t seem possible. I’ve got to take the turkey out of the freezer.
    We have holiday dinner with my son, DIL and her very mixed up family. My son, who as a young man informed me that I didn’t need to nag him about eating his vegetables because MacDonalds put lettuce and tomatoes on their hamburgers, married a Seventh Day Adventist vegetarian. Her immediate family is equally vegetarian, but through marriage (her former husband died of brain cancer) she has a _VERY_ eclectic family, most of whom are _not_ vegetarian. She accommodates them of course, but we’ve reached an agreement of sorts – I do the turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas. And ham for Easter. It works.
    Got a turkey in the freezer, need to get it out. I learned this year that if you defrost the right way (instead of setting it in the sink overnight) and defrost in the refrigerator, you have to put the turkey in a pan. They defrost all over the frig! My frig was cleaner though…after I sopped up all the defrostings! So…put frozen turkey in pan, put pan in the frig, skip the inch of water in the frig!

    1. We are having roast prime rib. Just the two of us. Everyone else will be at my Mom’s but due to the traveling… . We spent Saturday through Wednesday in North Carolina with Miss M and the grandson, ‘Phen. Spent a bit with Daughter C and the J-Man. Then an afternoon with Mom including an hour or two with Bro and his oldest— who was very interested in Jack, as that’s what she does, work with horses, etc.

      As I recall, John defrosts turkeys in a roaster in the fridge in the Bunkhouse. But there’s no turkey this year.

      Re the vegetarians, et al. We have a friend who is a vegetarian and she has the best outlook on her dietary status. She calls herself a “hospitable vegetarian.” When we have something here at the Farm, she’ll bring a vegetarian dish. She’s an excellent cook, so everyone enjoys. But she doesn’t expect omnivores to cater to her status. If there’s nothing strictly vegetarian available, she’ll find the closest approximation. Her husband only eats locally sourced meat— translated this means he hunts deer on the property and leaves a shoulder for us in the fridge!

      FYI. We made sausage today. Including Venison sausage. 🙂

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