Meat packing and other updates...
1/07/07 - The Lord's Day - Before Breakfast. Well, we are starting to adapt to what life will be like around here with a larger group. On Saturday we had 18 for breakfast in Santa Anna, and last night we had 20 on our small porch for Q&A. Today is our fellowship day and we are expecting 20 for singing at 10 a.m., lunch at noon and sermon some time after that. The temperatures have been a little bit on the cool side so we have been meeting on the inside porch. Today they are calling for temps in the 50's, but we are supposed to have high winds too.
This week I was busy preserving food. We are broke so we got almost no work done on the root cellar. For the fellas the week was spent splitting firewood and doing other such chores. I put up 20 jars of meat this week, and will be doing some more tomorrow and next week if the Lord wills. I have begun to store the newly canned foods on the shelves in the root cellar. I made some cheese this week, and on Friday I made sour cream. I had no idea what to expect with the sour cream project, but it turned out better than any sour cream I have ever bought at a store.
On Friday our neighbor Homer came by for a visit with his sister and brother-in-law from Lubbock who are moving down to the area. We gave them a tour of the "advancements" on the land and they were quite impressed. They had visited here back in June or July and were shocked with all that has been done since then. Homer had tried to get us some more pigs but the man who owned the ones he found was not willing to sell them. He is also hoping to give us a horse. Someone he knows is supposed to give him a horse and since he already has all he needs, if he gets the horse he is going to bring it to us.
All the cows, chickens and the goat are doing well. All except the pig who is probably dead at the butcher's. Today and tomorrow we are scheduled to begin killing some of our excess roosters. We will probably can the meat since we are trying to free up space in the freezer for when the pork arrives.
Logan rented the backhoe and dug out his root cellar, his outhouse, and a hole for a cistern. The Sustaires (Kelly and Carol) and Chris W. got moved to their land. Today the Ante's will be moving over to their property with the help from some of the fellas. Yesterday some of us took the long property walk checking on the progress on all the new homesteads. It was nice and interesting.
We are maintaining here and moving forward, though things are rather tight right now and we are not making progress on the root cellar.
We pray all is well with you all,
Michael Bunker, the family and household of faith here at the ranch.
This week I was busy preserving food. We are broke so we got almost no work done on the root cellar. For the fellas the week was spent splitting firewood and doing other such chores. I put up 20 jars of meat this week, and will be doing some more tomorrow and next week if the Lord wills. I have begun to store the newly canned foods on the shelves in the root cellar. I made some cheese this week, and on Friday I made sour cream. I had no idea what to expect with the sour cream project, but it turned out better than any sour cream I have ever bought at a store.
On Friday our neighbor Homer came by for a visit with his sister and brother-in-law from Lubbock who are moving down to the area. We gave them a tour of the "advancements" on the land and they were quite impressed. They had visited here back in June or July and were shocked with all that has been done since then. Homer had tried to get us some more pigs but the man who owned the ones he found was not willing to sell them. He is also hoping to give us a horse. Someone he knows is supposed to give him a horse and since he already has all he needs, if he gets the horse he is going to bring it to us.
All the cows, chickens and the goat are doing well. All except the pig who is probably dead at the butcher's. Today and tomorrow we are scheduled to begin killing some of our excess roosters. We will probably can the meat since we are trying to free up space in the freezer for when the pork arrives.
Logan rented the backhoe and dug out his root cellar, his outhouse, and a hole for a cistern. The Sustaires (Kelly and Carol) and Chris W. got moved to their land. Today the Ante's will be moving over to their property with the help from some of the fellas. Yesterday some of us took the long property walk checking on the progress on all the new homesteads. It was nice and interesting.
We are maintaining here and moving forward, though things are rather tight right now and we are not making progress on the root cellar.
We pray all is well with you all,
Michael Bunker, the family and household of faith here at the ranch.
posted by Michael Bunker at 1/07/2007 06:20:00 AM
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