I sure hope you all have much to be thankful for this season! Bypass the negative things happening and your list will grow and grow.
I know mine did when I put aside the worrying and the ugly things swirling around me for a time.
I was thinking of you all while cutting up my white pumpkins from the garden and butternut squash from a dear neighbor’s garden. I will be draining the pumpkin and the butternut squash and they will turn into pumpkin pies and butternut cheesecake on a pecan crust by tomorrow. The weather is cooperating for a lovely fall day with a slight chill in the air.
Last night we got our turkeys ready for our table and a few friend’s and neighbor’s tables as well. It was rather chilly. I didn’t have one small enough for a family that was trying to do the “American” holiday and offered them a very large chicken – but they didn’t understand that that was ok – at least it was for me. I went to Whole Foods website to see if they had a variety of turkeys for people to buy and they did. But what shocked me was their information about “fresh” turkeys – how the government says it’s ok to kill the turkeys in February, keep them at 27 degrees all year and sell them as fresh!!! Oh my goodness! Natural, fresh, what other words can I use to describe the wonderful bounty that has been provided to us here at the farm?
We have several turkeys out there that will be well close to 35/40 lbs it looks like before they are prepared for the freezer/canning or whatever else we decide to do with them. I can’t put them in the freezer right now because of all the frozen milk and frozen chickens that we have! 2 full freezers and 2 over the fridge freezers full to the brim.
After the craft fair season is done you can bet that I’ll be pulling a lot of them out and baking them to ready them for fast food – we call home-canned chicken our fast food. Make up a bit of bbq sauce, heat the meat in it and serve it on homemade ww/oat rolls – yum! (I guess we’ll be using some of our giant turkey for this too after Thanksgiving dinner). Oh turkey and homemade noodles – I’d better stop – I think I like making the after Thanksgiving food better than the big day’s food!
Well, off to finish up something – I have a lot of soaps that we’ve run out of for the season and have to get them made and ready for you all . . .
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being our friends, family and customers . . . we are so very thankful for you!!!!
Marilyn