
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Ash

Saturday, March 28, 2009
Another Busy Saturday

While Kari was gathering wood, I finished painting the unfinished bedroom. There are two colors. A dark blue and a burnt orange. They look pretty good. Next we need some more plywood to make the entire floor level, then then we will put on laminate flooring. Here is the room:


Sunday, March 22, 2009
Busy Day
After that, I worked a little on the house, I spent about 20 Minuts sanding some mud in the our extra bedroom in preperation for texturing and painting. After that I went to the range with Peter Johnson and Subdeacon John Phelps. I brought my .357 and fired 38 Special from it. Peter brought his 12 gauge with a compression stock so I could feel the difference from my 12 gauge and his. I shot 5 rounds of buck shot and 1 slug through that. No brusies on my shoulder, I should get that compression stock! I also fired Peter's Mini 14, it shoots .223. After coming back I had to butcher one of the chickens. We had a rooster which was harrasing the hens and eating food, so was basically useless. Here is me outside getting the skin and feathers off and guts out:

After that I brought it inside, did the final cleaning and cut the legs/thighs and the breasts off. The wings were so small they were not worth keeping. I then vacumn sealed it in our new vacumn sealer. And the finished product:
I'm very proud of myself for cleaning the chicken all by myself. This is only the 3rd time I have butcherd a chicken, the other times I had someone looking over by shoulder who actually knew what they were doing. Can't wait to have some chicken and dumplings after Lent!