Sunday morning dancing in Grandaad's ballgown.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Sausage Making
DAY 3:
Sausage making. We made Italian Sausage, Tradition Sage sausage, and other kinds as well. A gigantic mountain of ground pork piled high on the countertop by the end of this day!
Day 4:
Lard rendering and soap making. All finished!
BOTHILDE AND UNA BUTCHER 2 PIGS
Hog butchering takes a good 3-4 days. It was quite an experience for the whole family to see a pork chop be born.
DAY 1:
Slaughtering, skinning, and gutting our dear pigs. Then they hang overnight.
Day2:
We cut each carcass down the middle and butcher each side seperately. Here are Papa and Bothilde and Una ready to begin!
All Souls Day
We spent All Souls day at the cemetary in Marine. It's really something to watch wee ones weave in and amongst gravesites...the Communion of Saints.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Happy Feast of All Saints!
Halloween was spent carving pumkins and talking alot about souls seperated from bodies, praying for our deceased loved ones, hunting and gathering candy in the dark (and it's analogy to the heavenly rewards we seek by being good) and just plain HAVING FUN!
Tilda went as a Ballet dancer (what else is there?) and Una went as a "Bearellina" Auntie Allie and her friend Mel came along too. MARINE on ST.CROIX MN: Halloween town USA, where the neighbors pass out glasses of beer and wine to the parents, bowls of chili and cornbread abound, fire pits to gather around and warm the hands...the fire station hands out glow in the dark necklaces and candy bars (big ones) and the icecream shop gives away all its end of the season icecream. Glorious way to begin a celebration of the COMMUNION of SAINTs!
Una made off with an awful lot of candy. I think the cuteness factor played in quite a bit there.
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