Hog butchering day!

Here at the redneck homestead, we butcher our own meat, process and pack it up for our freezer, it's so nice to know where your meat is coming from and what is going into it, we raised these ourselves in our little red barn, fed only scraps and some grain, so we know exactly what we are eating!

Better close your eyes if you don't get into butchering cuz this isn't a clean blog

 one shot, gut them, skin them

 lop the head off

 dig out the innerds you intend to use for krepple/scrapple making later

 try to keep the dog from getting into the junk pile

then start the cutting process, first we slice it in half, right down the backbone, making them manageable to get into the basement where we have the tables & saws setup to start cutting out the roasts, hams, bacon, chops, etc

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you all!

Happy Birthday!

It's December yet again, we are always slammed with December birthdays around here.

I was born December 18th, a year later my sister came along on December 17th. . . 

25 years later my daughter was born on my sisters birthday, December 17th

1 year later my son was born on December 19th

so yup, we always get together to torment each other on gettin older

 Geesh, you can't take me anywhere, not even my own kitchen! Broke a nail dangit!

 whatever, moving on LOL

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US ALL

yeah, she knows we are just nuts!

My father in law's birthday is December 12th as well!!!

 she says "no fair, I'm older, he's taller"

 defeated HAR

game time

 ever play the board game "Would you rather. . . ?"

boy oh boy, you can learn alot about someone with this game HA HA HA

and it sure can be a ton of fun!

 what you don't want to do is fall asleep while you are here . . .

because ya know, that makes you the prime target for pranks

in this case, my son is painting my nephew's fingernails HA HA HA

fun day at school tomorrow if he isn't paying attention when he is getting ready for school!

New Curtain Toppers & wall color

OK so I decided to go outside my comfort zone and do a dark wall in my living room, I wanted a deep dark red, well see here what I got? It's like a mauve, hmmm not overly impressed and it makes the room seem sooo dark, it looks pretty where the light is on, but when light is off or not shining on the wall, it appears almost purpley mauve

 no, me not impressed, I foresee this changin in the near future, it's not "me"

 but moving over to the other walls, I made new curtain toppers, was supposed to match the one dark wall I did, I like them, just not happy with that other wall!

the big window seems like I need more swag going on or longer maybe I should say

the striped material was a tablecloth, I just cut it down to size and made enough little toppers for the 2 windows I needed them for ~ it'll make due for now - after all it IS December, about time to decorate for Christmas, so they should work ok

Party time!! Wood burner update

OH ME OH MY, sometime between the calzone & pool party, someone asked someone else to go to their Christmas party :)

 heh heh heh ok he wasn't ready for me to snap pic yet

there we go, what a cute pair they make!

How about a little update on the monster wood burner we put in the basement?

 see, I told you it was a monster, it can be used to heat with coal, oil or wood

hole in wall, ready to install the chimney pipe for it before winter!