Monday, January 3, 2011

What a Bird!

 

 

You can see that this Tom was huge and beautiful. People who ate the turkeys for Thanksgiving said that it was the best turkey they had ever had. They certainly were happy turkeys - roosting in the trees until the night before they were butchered.
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Process Continued

 

 

 

 

Scalding, plucking, gutting, and crop
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Butchering Process

 

Draining
 

Initial Cleaning
 

Transfering to work zone
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Thanksgiving work

 

 

Turkey butchering set up. Water boiling for plucking. Outside work zone - complete with goats.
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Beautiful Jumpers

 

 

 

Here are the jumpers my mom made for the girls! They are amazing and the girls LOVE them!
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Christmas Morning

 

 

 

 

Here are a few glimpses of fun in Youngsville on Christmas Morning!
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Dessert

 

 

I guess this would be a tradition - we realized this year that we make apple pies for Christmas every year. This year the Youngs did an assembly line of 6 apple crisps!
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Snow much fun!

 

 

 

Snow fun on Christmas day
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Our Tom Turkey

 

 

Here is "Tom" struttin' himself.
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White Christmas

 

Wisdom is sitting on my lap, so not many words today! :)
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Transformation

 

 
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Before the Paint

 

 

 

We had a terribly ugly exterior until recently! Jeff (and what I can offer and a few friends)have helped to transform our home!
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