Hello Readers,
(Now I know that we have some because of your comments and I checked the Stats.) Daddy got home at 12:15 a.m. on Saturday morning so we slept a little later. I made pancakes for breakfast but Mama had such a bad migraine headache that she couldn't eat with us. We had to prepare for butchering day all by ourselves. Maybe I'm not mature enough but when Mama has such a headache and almost all the responsibility is on my shoulders, I could cry. We got everything ready, stopped in at the grocery store for some more bags and were off, without Mama. We got to Grandma and Grandpa around 10:45. (We use their garage for butchering.) They had already cleaned up quite a bit of meat. We jumped in and started cutting too. Even Leandro helped. (Until he cut himself)
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| The children had their own table. |
The children cut the meat into stew pieces or pieces for the meat grinder. They were very fast and we didn't know why until we started grinding. Smile.
Edgar said that it was a good thing that we had butchered the cow when we did because he would have died soon anyway with so many blood clots. Of course, he knew better that's just Edgar for you.
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| Samuel really likes cutting up food. |
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| Bianca was the one cutting the stew. |
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| Daddy, Grandma, Grandpa, and I had our own table. |
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| Daddy and Grandpa cut the bones into 'cooker-size' pieces. |
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We all missed Daddy and enjoyed working beside him.
(Although sometimes it was a little to close for him. Smile) |
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| The children loved watching Grandpa grind the meat. |
We had lunch at Dew Drop Inn (A Mennonite Mexican Food Restaurant) It was very special for us children as we hadn't been there for quite a while. After lunch Mama's headache was almost gone, (Another sign of God's great faithfulness) so Daddy went home to get her. It was so much better after she was there. We finished cleaning up somewhere between seven and seven thirty in the evening. Grandma and Grandpa went to Taber and we went home for our baths. I was glad for one because at the end of a butchering day everything red on yourself looks or feels like meat or blood. The good thing was that we didn't have to deal with very much 'people' blood this time. Leandro cut himself in the morning and Samuel cut Imelda once a little bit but that was it. (That wasn't on purpose of course) Well that's all for a butchering day post and I hope that even those of you who don't enjoy butchering enjoyed this post.
Love,
Yesenia
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| Mama and Daddy working together. |
We had lunch at Dew Drop Inn (A Mennonite Mexican Food Restaurant) It was very special for us children as we hadn't been there for quite a while. After lunch Mama's headache was almost gone, (Another sign of God's great faithfulness) so Daddy went home to get her. It was so much better after she was there. We finished cleaning up somewhere between seven and seven thirty in the evening. Grandma and Grandpa went to Taber and we went home for our baths. I was glad for one because at the end of a butchering day everything red on yourself looks or feels like meat or blood. The good thing was that we didn't have to deal with very much 'people' blood this time. Leandro cut himself in the morning and Samuel cut Imelda once a little bit but that was it. (That wasn't on purpose of course) Well that's all for a butchering day post and I hope that even those of you who don't enjoy butchering enjoyed this post. 
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