Erland has been raising pigs and finally one was ready for the slaughter house. He loaded the pig up and took it off to be....well....KILLED! I know this sounds incredibly disgusting, however growing up as this being part of your life really doesn't bother me. My sister on the other hand HATES it!
Anyway, after church a couple of Sunday's ago, the pig was ready to be butchered. Since dad is/was a butcher, Erland asked him to help out. This brought back a lot of memories of when I was a kid. Ok, so picture this.....we've got a half of a pig slapped right on the dining room table and dad cuttin' away. Kelly & I were wrapping the meat as little Courtney was lugging it out to us. Mom was fixing supper for everyone and working around us happily. Erland was .... well .... pretty much supervising I guess. Making sure dad was doing it right maybe?? hahah! It was hilarious!!!
A lot of the grandkids were there. Dicky's 3 kids were over from next door. Of course Erland and Kelly's 2 kids were there. Darcy's 2 boys came up from their house and Darcy came up with Tannon later on. She was appalled by the WHOLE thing! It was funny how nothing changed from when she was a kid. She said at the end, "Remind me NOT to come up when there's butchering going on!". Branson, Darcy's oldest boy, kept wanting to touch or look at the scrap meat in the box. I think Darcy's blood pressure was 220 over 110! She kept yelling at Branson not to touch anything! It was funny.
I thought you'd like to see some pictures I snapped on my cell phone of the event. Courtney is smiling after delivering us some meat. Kaedon and Branson are watching grampa cut up the
meat. Kacie is taking it all in with her cute little smile.
It was a fun afternoon! Well...for some of us that is...sorry Darcy! :)
