Venison processing today. I had plans for the morning before I followed Ady down (Ady and Neil skin the beast first, I get there an hour or so after them once there is meat to start processing and packing) but internet related stuff got in the way. There appears to be a problem with my chromebook constantly uploading *something* but not sure what. Presume it is some cloud storage thing supposed to be happening in the background but it is slowing everything up.
So I walked down, chatted to a few people along the way and arrived at the larder. Lesley followed me in with a kettle as the larder has no hot water which makes life rather difficult in there. So we chatted for about half an hour before I actually started doing anything. We were mostly mincing the beast for the venison company as we want to make burgers and sausages so that was easy enough. The rest was diced and steaks so I minced 12 kg and vaccum packed the rest. Then I drove along to put that in the venison freezer while Ady and Neil skinned the second beast. This one was for us – we have bought a whole beast – a lot of meat but we have freezer space. We wanted diced, minced and steaks, we also did one roasting joint. It took longer than I’d been expecting and it was nearly 5pm by the time we came out. We were so cold – the larder is refrigerated and it was a cold day anyway. We cleaned down, dropped the meat off at our freezer and headed for home.
Ady fed the animals, I made pizza dough, we had a quick cup of tea and were then back out again for the monthly residents meeting. There were some contentious things on the agenda but it was a good productive meeting.
Home for yet more chromebook wrangling before dinner. We watched Doctor Who which arrived in Lovefilm today and the first Town Called Eureka which we hadn’t appreciated would be an hour long so should probably not have started after 10pm -oops. We all enjoyed it though.
Tomorrow is packing and trip off preparation.