2008-10-25
Snow Flurries
Isn't it amazing how time flies. One day it's early September and we're enjoying the last of the summer weather then it's almost the end of October and there's frost and snow flurries ..... brrrrrr...... Winter is definitely on the way. Ed and I have 36 more days of this weather to "enjoy". Hmm.... now I'm wondering why we decided to delay our departure by a month. Must have decided on one of the warm days and convinced ourselves that winter would be late this year and the pros of staying exceeded the cons.
The excitement last weekend was learning how to make sausages. The woman who runs the restaurant at the local airport has sausage making equipment and offered to teach Anne, Victor, Ed and myself how to make sausages. Now, I'm sure you are asking yourself why and I answer why not. Ed and I were a little late but jumped right in when we got there. I started trimming the fat and grizzle from the meat and Ed helped with the grinding --- it was the manual kind where you had to turn the crank --- yes they discussed how to put a motor on it. At one point there were four people watching me trim meat .... felt like I was working on a construction site --- you know one worker and four supervisors. Once all the meat was trimmed and ground the spices were added and the meat mixed --- lucky Ed got to do that part. The meat was a ground a second time and pushed into the casings. The guys took turns grinding as it was hard work ---- yup lots more discussion on motorizing the processing. After the sausages were all made and he kitchen cleaned we headed to Walkerton to barbecue some of the sausages for dinner. The sausages were very lean, in fact a little dry though very tasty. Guess I was a little too enthusiastic in trimming the meat. A couple of days ago I used some of the sausages in Chili and I didn't miss the fat.
Thursday was my brother's 60th birthday (he's getting old but I'm not!!!) and my mom had an appointment with the eye specialist so Zaph and I drove down to Burlington for the day (Ed went to help Anne and Victor hook up their generator). Yeah!!!! good news, my mom's eyes haven't changed in the past year. My brother had the week off as vacation so were able to have a visit during the afternoon.
The excitement last weekend was learning how to make sausages. The woman who runs the restaurant at the local airport has sausage making equipment and offered to teach Anne, Victor, Ed and myself how to make sausages. Now, I'm sure you are asking yourself why and I answer why not. Ed and I were a little late but jumped right in when we got there. I started trimming the fat and grizzle from the meat and Ed helped with the grinding --- it was the manual kind where you had to turn the crank --- yes they discussed how to put a motor on it. At one point there were four people watching me trim meat .... felt like I was working on a construction site --- you know one worker and four supervisors. Once all the meat was trimmed and ground the spices were added and the meat mixed --- lucky Ed got to do that part. The meat was a ground a second time and pushed into the casings. The guys took turns grinding as it was hard work ---- yup lots more discussion on motorizing the processing. After the sausages were all made and he kitchen cleaned we headed to Walkerton to barbecue some of the sausages for dinner. The sausages were very lean, in fact a little dry though very tasty. Guess I was a little too enthusiastic in trimming the meat. A couple of days ago I used some of the sausages in Chili and I didn't miss the fat.
Thursday was my brother's 60th birthday (he's getting old but I'm not!!!) and my mom had an appointment with the eye specialist so Zaph and I drove down to Burlington for the day (Ed went to help Anne and Victor hook up their generator). Yeah!!!! good news, my mom's eyes haven't changed in the past year. My brother had the week off as vacation so were able to have a visit during the afternoon.
# posted by The Agnew Family @ 7:27 AM 
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