The hog butchering is going well. It is a big job and is very time consuming. Ian has sustained eleven nicks to his knuckles so far but we have finished one whole pig plus the two hams of the second.
The boys are fascinated with the butchering process and spent their breaks from home schooling watching Ian work. They are beginning to understand what parts of the animal correspond to which cuts of meat. They are asking questions and we can see them working through things spatially in their heads. They are learning a lot.
Our small cube freezer is now four-fifths full of pork! Luckily we still have the chest freezer so we will not run out of storage space. We have roasts, chops, belly for bacon, hams, ribs, ground for sausage, jowls for stew, and bones for broth - all the parts. We will never be able to dig through all that meat to get to the bottom of the freezer though so we will have to eat from the top down!
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