Ady and I left the kids to it this morning and headed down to the larder. We were cutting up the haunches and boning out the ribs this morning. We’ll never remember all those cuts and will have to watch the dvd lots of times before getting our heads round what we’re doing. We finished the morning bagging up various cuts before breaking for lunch.
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Ady and I whizzed round to see Chris and Julie and had a cup of tea with them before going to the hall to do some theory training. We learnt about labelling, what goes into sausages and had a bit of a chat before going back to the larder to make sausages. The training has been frustrating in that it has been slow of pace in some ways but we feel like other bits have been rushed through. I suspect we’ll only really get the benefit of it once we’re doing it. It’s all the harder for having Chris and Julie here and wanting to be spending the time with them really rather than doing this.
The sausage making was really good. I’d done a bit of it at Evergreen while WWOOFing but Pete had been very protective of the actual making part so I’d not had a go at that. It was fab to do the whole thing, particularly using the deer we’d skinned and butchered over the last two days. Neil and I had a quick directors chat and decided everyone could keep their own sausages which pleased the whole group 🙂
We’ve come home with a great big bagful, all of which is now added to our meat stash in Fliss & Sandy’s freezer – even more to keep us going through the coming months although Scarlett is not that keen on venison so she’ll be having something else when the rest of us are eating it!
Ady left a little before me to get to the croft to feed the animals and walk Bonnie who has had a fairly rubbish couple of days really cooped up in the car while we get on with stuff. I’m looking forward to getting back to normal once my parents leave and spending time with Bonnie and the kids again, it’s felt like a manic couple of weeks. I walked up to the croft to catch up with Ady and then we both walked back down to put the meat in the freezer at Fliss’, catch up with Chris and Julie and pop to the shop for a swift beer – it feels like ages since we were part of the Rum crowd even though it’s less than a week.
We walked back to the croft as dark was falling to be met by the four kids who had got worried about us so come to meet us, so we all walked back together in fading light. Sausages and chips for dinner – lovely :). Kids to bed and I’ll not be long after them – standing all day in the refrigerated larder trying to take in so many new skills makes for a very tiring day!