Oof-da

We are finally done processing the moose. We have an entire freezer of meat. Like, really, we had to go buy a freezer for this moose. We now have two freezers in the garage. And that is not uncommon for an Alaskan. Most people have at least two freezers in the garage. We finished on Sunday, cleaned on Monday, and then my husband left for the slope yesterday. It's been a crazy-hectic two weeks. I'm hoping things will settle down a bit this coming week. I have some thinks to crank out and I haven't been able to even get in the sewing room because it was occupied with my mother.

Here's my husband with the Cabela's meat grinder. We add fat to the moose when we grind it for burger. Moose has virtually no fat in it and will just crumble if you try to cook it as burger by itself. The white stuff you see below is beef fat that was added to the moose.

We also made 150 pounds of sausage. We bought the seasoning packet from a local business. The mix is okay but we've made better. This time though we didn't have the supplies on hand to mix up our own batch of seasonings.

Here's the grinder set-up. It's right next to the gun case. Can't have one without the other, eh?

We have an old ping pong table that we use for a makeshift table. We put it on sawhorses. The black bucket is trash and the white bucket is for scraps that will be ground into burger.

I thought this was pretty cool. My husband made this magnetic knife holder. He bought the magnets at Ace Hardware.

I'm hoping things are about to get more relaxed . . .