If there’s one thing I really need to work on (and I know there are many) . . I have to do better about leaving the house. It isn’t that I’m scared to leave or that I have bad experiences when I’m out but it’s that there’s so much fun stuff to do at home and if I’m not here, I’m missing out on the time I could be doing fun stuff. I’m perfectly happy to let Vince buy the groceries . . he loves going out. There’s nothing else I need . . just a few groceries every now and then. The mail lady and the UPS man bring most everything else I need.
I had to go out today and I kept telling myself . . just go and you can get back home and then you don’t have to leave again for almost another week when I have a medical appointment.
Last Saturday the meat processing place called and told us our hog was ready to be picked up. They close at noon on Saturday and we were on the other side of our town when they called and the processing plant is about 35 miles from town and we didn’t have time to get there so I told them I would pick it up this week. Today was the first day the weather was decent and I talked myself out of going this morning. I figured Vince and I could go Saturday morning and that will satisfy his desire to go somewhere. At lunch, Vince asked if I had picked up the pork and I told him no . . we would do it on Saturday. He said “Do you know we’re having ice again on Saturday?” NO! Snow tomorrow. Ice on Saturday. NO! NO! NO! Sunday it will be up in the 60’s so whatever we have will be short lived.
The weather forecast means I had to go . . I had to go to the next town (really the NEXT town) and get the pork and I had to do it today. Since it was below freezing, I went ahead and ran the rest of my errands . . Kroger, CVS, the meat market and the veggie market.
The last time I cleaned out one of the big freezers, I thought I had made enough room for the pork that I knew was coming but I had to cram pork everywhere in order to get it into the freezers. We have two big upright freezers and three full size fridges with their freezers, and one small upright freezer and I don’t think I could get one more thing in any of them. In fact, I had to keep out one pork roast that I couldn’t manage to fit anywhere. We’ll have that for dinner on Saturday.
Bringing in those heavy boxes of meat and digging around trying to get it all in the freezer . . I’m pretty tired! I was thinking I might mention going out to eat tonight but I’m betting by the time Vince gets home, I’ll be back in my “don’t want to leave home ever again” mode.
Ground Pork
This is the reason I get a pig every year. Some years I’m tempted to tell them that I want bacon and grind the rest up into ground pork. This is so good! I prefer ground pork burgers over beef burgers. We mix the pork with venison, elk and those lean meats when making burgers. There are 35 pounds of ground pork and I’m sure that’s the first thing we’ll run out of . . ground pork! I’m already looking at the weather forecast to see when it will be warm enough to ask Vince to grill pork burgers. Yum.
Linda in NE says
Canned pork is yummy.
shirley bruner says
Gosh…i swear we are sisters. i hate leaving the farm. i always send the hubby out to the grocery store, post office, bank, and wherever else things need to happen. i do go out to go to the thrift stores once a month or so. but, otherwise, i am perfectly happy to stay here….in the house or in the studio. the hubby doesn’t get it….he is happy to go somewhere every day.
Judy L. says
Vince probably cannot stay home more than 2 days in a row. Retirement will be interesting.
Teri says
It would be a good feeling having all that meat in the freezer. Is the price you pay a lot less than the grocery store?
Judy Laquidara says
Probably no less. I mostly only buy meat on sale so I may pay a little more for the home grown pig but the taste is so vastly different. When we buy half a beef, the cost usually ends up being more than buying it in the store but there’s no added water, or preservatives or hormones, other than what may be in the feed.
Denise in PA says
All that pork – Yum! I’m with you…I could happily not leave my house for weeks at a time. I never get to do that, but I do come home from work on a Friday and not go out again until Monday morning every weekend I can!! Yes, way too much fun things do to at home!