tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939462579252426448.post8251457486543763557..comments2023-11-02T06:44:14.850-07:00Comments on City Wife, Country Life: Worse than Seasickness, but Eerily SimilarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939462579252426448.post-1149627226257951922009-11-29T03:04:01.774-08:002009-11-29T03:04:01.774-08:00I could never handle the whole butchering process(...I could never handle the whole butchering process(me with my city-bred sensibilities!), but my kids only have trouble with the killing, not the butchering. We don't do it ourselves anymore--we bring hogs and steers to the butcher and for a fee, we get back a bunch of nice little deep-frozen packages, all labeled!<br /><br />Funny story: we did do our first pig ourselves. I didn't witness the whole thing, but husband and I had to take these enormous chunks of pork and cut them up. I was 8 months pregnant, and we are working like crazy, trying to keep 3 little kids out of the kitchen. At some point I began to laugh, and hubby, tired and irritated after hours of cutting, wrapping and labeling, asked, "What's so funny?" I gestured to us--smeared with blood--and my kitchen, which looked like an abattoir, and said, "I was a vegetarian for twenty years of my life!"<br /><br />Anyway, it took 6 hours to do and a few years off of my life, so now we have the butcher do it.Nadjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11092566609789390592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939462579252426448.post-23218309077505637722009-11-28T21:47:55.268-08:002009-11-28T21:47:55.268-08:00Oh I am trying to feel your pain. I watched one o...Oh I am trying to feel your pain. I watched one once on TV and that was bad enough. I can't imagine seeing it in person. Despite it all, one of my favorite things is bacon. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com