which could mean so many things but as a facebook friend correctly guessed was infact referring to putting venison through a grinder and into vacuum packed bags. Odd to have a comment from an ex boyfriend on that post commenting on how much I’ve changed. Even more so as I was only thinking about him the other day. Weird how people flit in and out of your thoughts and then your life.
Today was up at stupid, middle of the night, still dark o’clock to be in the deer larder for 7am. We did get to see Saturn and Venus looking amazing in the sky though as we bobbed along the path with our headtorches past still slumbering animals. We left the kids in bed with breakfast laid out and instructions to feed the animals once they were up. I woke Davies as we left because I know he can snuggle back down to sleep again whereas Scarlett would rouse properly and then not want us to leave.
They had a good morning playing, listening to the radio, feeding the animals and watching films.
We had a productive morning skinning, butchering and processing a hind. We have an order for a saddle and 3kg of venison mince so did that the rest was minced, diced and cut into steaks to go in the freezer. Tomorrow we are hoping to do the second one and sell all of that on island. Neil has done a fair bit of it before so he led Ady while I set up all the new equipment – mincer, knives and saws, vacuum packer. We all then did some butchering stuff off the bone before mincing some and then packing everything up and weighing it. We finished earlier than planned which was great, hopefully we will tomorrow as well.
We cleared up and packed everything back into our car then Ady and I called round to see Sandy. He was the wrong side of a few drinks so we had a cup of tea with him them came away planning to go back later again. Back home at the planned time for lunch with the kids. Scarlett and I washed and dried up and then Ady and I went back out to collect some firewood and nip back to see Fliss and Sandy. Arranged to go round tomorrow to make fudge and truffles for the Christmas fayre on Saturday. Then we came home. Julie rang just after dinner so I caught up with her. We watched Mannequin on dvd which was a film Ady used to love but the kids only classed as ‘ok’. We’ve promised next week will be less out of the house for Ady and I and far more time together.