December 5, 2007 

urkey butchering day. I have 6 Broad Breasted Bronze to do. A friend is coming up to help me with them this morning. It is supposed to be -15C/5F for a high today and supposed to get really windy. At least where I butcher at is between barn buildings, so it may cut the wind a wee bit. 

Last night I had a telephone interview for a magazine. Not mine, another one. That is 2 telephone interviews in less than a month on two totally different subjects. I used to get alot of products sent to me to trial or books to read last winter. Now I get telephone interviews this winter.

Turkey butcherer-partner is here so I need to go. 

Afternoon Update:

Pete, Katrin's husband came up to help me do in the turkeys. They got a turkey in trade for him helping me pith them. Three turkey's lived to see another day however. It was so cold the feathers were freezing almost instantly and lacerating our hands like razor blades and the skin of the birds was tearing. But we got three of them done. One I got mad at and completely skinned, as the skin came half off anyway. I am grinding that one into hamburger I think. They were all hens, so lower weights than toms, but still fair sized birds.  I got wet enough that I could not unzip my coat. The zipper was frozen shut. I had to shimmy out of it over my head. 

Then, just as we were wrapping up and getting the birds to the kitchen, my snowplow Angel showed up. It WAS whom I thought it was. Even I, a woman, who stereotypically would not know a Dodge from a Ford, a green truck from a blue one, is convinced her neighbor is colorblind as well as not familiar with truck makes and models. Even I know a Ford from a Dodge. 

Cinnamon Bear Episode 10: Approached by a Giant
Paddy reappears. Finally they are all together. They enter a witch's house and walk right through a picture frame into a forest. There they meet Fraidy Cat and begin to tremble as a huge giant comes toward them.