That was a lot of pig.

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I was sort of rooting around to get going.  I did call, it was ready, I made a general note that I'd be in this afternoon or tomorrow.  Couldn't focus, wasn't sure.  As it turns out, a shower, this, that, and I ended up there today.  I have bought a hog twice.  This one, for some reason, seems twice the other pigs?  No complaints, just a bit of a surprise.  I thought, since they were going to butcher early, that they might be smaller.  Especially since it was much less expensive this year.  The price has come down, a lot, I am told.  All good.  Wow, though.  Thankfully I will be sending some out the back door.  Beef next month?  Tight.  But it's a sort of tight I can live with.  Might have to get another, smaller, drop-in, or see if they or another shop, does freeze storage.  I, this time, asked about lamb.  Yep!  Later this summer, around August.  Oh yeah.  The trifecta.  They asked about chicken but I'm... not so much on chicken.  Still... you know... if I am going to buy chicken...  I'll see what they have.  I'll buy local, especially non-organic.  Hutch or free-range isn't so much of a deal, so long as the price is right.  A dozen chickens in the freezer, per year, isn't bad.  Rabbits?  If they offered those, I'd do half and half, at least as an experiment.

I never did call my friend.  While I am a bit tuckered with the driving, sorting, lifting, hauling, arranging... it actually is a bit of work... especially whole hogging it...  I do believe I will make it to town for groceries later.  Just a quick trip, nothing fancy.  A minor haul.  Meat is now tended for the next year, or that is in the works.  Milk, eggs, corn starch, and a few minor such.  I'll make an attempt to contact him in a few minutes.  A couple of various packages of the various cuts, so as to see if he likes what is offered locally.  He knows of the place, simply hasn't quite gotten around to shopping there.  Though they do have a small shop where they retail some of their meats just down the way.  I'm not sure I have seen pork in there, if I wasn't looking all that closely.

Definitely a good day, if I finish as I am proposing.  With groceries and such, tomorrow will be a down day, for rest.  That in the hopes I can be ready to climb several trees, cutting this and that, and maybe setting some things up out there.  Not too much work, but it'll wind me.  Wednesday or Thursday, whenever it is that my wind returns.  Like a boomerang, you can only use your breath when it is back in hand after a use.  Later.