Here is the before....
By the way - that huge kettle is full of leaf lard. That's what I'm talkin' about....
Today is all meat all the time - we are cutting these beautiful pork halves into manageable chunks and then getting them into the freezer. The hams will be taken to the local butcher to be cured and smoked along with one of the bacons. We'll work on the other bacons here. And we might try canning some of the meat instead of freezing it all. But I'll get to that as we go along.
We had a great time yesterday. Everything went off without a hitch and we had a wonderful time with our pal Bourbon Red and his kids ("the Poults"). The Poults were my best helpers ever and wow can they make cinnamon rolls! We loved having our friends here and were so glad they came - we could not have done this ourselves. The pigz turned out to be huge - at least 325lbs or better!
And now we have most of the meat we'll need for a year. I feel like we won the lottery. The bacon lottery....*OFG dreamily thinks of a real bacon lottery...*
All of the effort, all of the work, all of the pig-hatin' was totally worth it... and as the day went along from when we first marched down there to the moment the last half was strung up in the garage... I finally loved them pigz. Turning pigz into pork is where the real love happens.
I'll be posting a detailed post about what happened... along with Part Three of our epic tale (Part One here and Part Two here)... but for now I gotta get my meat saw and run right out there.
Happy Sunday everyone! On this Lord's day we thank God for this full harvest and having the Hand of Provision on us. Amen and amen.
We had a great time yesterday. Everything went off without a hitch and we had a wonderful time with our pal Bourbon Red and his kids ("the Poults"). The Poults were my best helpers ever and wow can they make cinnamon rolls! We loved having our friends here and were so glad they came - we could not have done this ourselves. The pigz turned out to be huge - at least 325lbs or better!
And now we have most of the meat we'll need for a year. I feel like we won the lottery. The bacon lottery....*OFG dreamily thinks of a real bacon lottery...*
All of the effort, all of the work, all of the pig-hatin' was totally worth it... and as the day went along from when we first marched down there to the moment the last half was strung up in the garage... I finally loved them pigz. Turning pigz into pork is where the real love happens.
I'll be posting a detailed post about what happened... along with Part Three of our epic tale (Part One here and Part Two here)... but for now I gotta get my meat saw and run right out there.
Happy Sunday everyone! On this Lord's day we thank God for this full harvest and having the Hand of Provision on us. Amen and amen.
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