Agreed. I wish it didn’t have to be like that. We didn’t raise a steer this season as Beau was convinced he’d have a bear, an elk and a deer in the freezer by now - we have the bear, but no other RED meat. :(
There’s one more deer season this month, so not all hope is lost!
We’re also buying each other fishing tackle for Christmas gifts. We want to do more fishing, too.
However, I will miss having beef steaks & roasts in the freezer this winter! We’ve raised both beef and pork, and plan to do more of both in the future.
Life Is Good! :)
Most of the people around here who have a few cattle did not slaughter this fall, so they don’t have beef to barter or sell-they were saving that steer or cow in case Hillary won, so they wouldn’t have to buy another at prices that were sure to go up-so I’ll buy beef at the locker plant-but one of my neighbors who raises hogs-the smaller and leaner ones that healthy food types like me enjoy-made a good deal with me and another neighbor for meat when he slaughters in a week or two, so there will be pork chops on the grill...
I haven’t had a place to hunt in 3 years-since the rancher who let a couple of us neighbors hunt on his 30 acres bought a bigger place in far West Texas-it is not possible I’ll find a place before the season closes in January, so I’m venisonless unless one of the guys I work with has a successful hunt and will trade for some fresh herbs, late veggies or a few loaves of homemade bread.
I was going to walk down to the river and try to get a catfish over the weekend, but it started raining Sat morning and it is still raining-maybe next weekend-the river bottom here is rocky, so the catfish don’t have a muddy taste, which is nice.
Hard times or not, life is still good when you don’t have to depend on a city to survive, even living alone-and that is a good thing