#titancia

[compulsivefarmer]

Yeah I was thinking of getting some if this cough doesn't clear up within the next day. I got some Claritin D because it was mostly in my sinuses, but now it's just really the cough.

[craftdiscoveries]

A small array of charms I cleaned out of my jump ring boxes when I rearranged how I was storing my jump rings. I'm not sure why the were charms in my jump rings.

[compulsivefarmer]

titancia replied to your post “I keep saying we need to get rid of some pigs. My husband is like “we...”

Can you make bacon

I, personally, cannot if I want to resell. Plus I don’t even know how. 

Okay here is a rundown of how to sell (or buy) meat directly from farms (in NY State as regulations vary). 

There are, generally, three ways it is done.

1) If you are thrifty sort you can go to a farm and buy a live pig. Great. This is your cheapest option, but requires you have someplace to kill and process a whole animal... This is not an option for most... hell its not even really an option for me as I don’t have the equipment to process a full size hog, only small roasters. Anyway...

2) You buy a pig from the farm and the farmer sends it to the butcher of your or their choice (depending on what the individual policy of the farm is). This is a little more expensive for the consumer, because you both have to buy the pig and pay the butcher. You are also responsible for what kind of cuts you get. What type of sausage and how you want your bacon. This is the preferred way most farmers like to sell their meat, as it does not require us to find a USDA certified butcher, as technically we are not selling meat, but a live animal. It also doesn’t require us to hold on to the meat. Our responsibility ends once the animal is dropped off. If the customer doesn’t like the cuts or smoking, we can shrug it off and point them in the direction of the butcher who they paid to process the animal to their specifications. 

3) Buying a pig already cut and wrapped. This is the most expensive option as the farmer is not only going to charge you for the animal, the butcher fee, but also for their time and expense of storing the meat. The butcher fee is also higher, because the farmer will have to get the animal processed at a USDA facility for re-sale. You also have no say over the cuts of the meat. We try to get a variety of cuts, but we can’t stock everything. The advantage is that you can buy smaller quantities of meat. We get a few done this way through the year so we have product to sell at the farmer’s markets. But I prefer to sell pigs either using method 1 or 2, as it does not require me to keep 5 freezers running year round. 

(There are CSAs for meat, but those vary so widely from one farm to the next that I can’t really sum those up into a proper point.)

[glitterkittythefabulous]

@titancia  :Have you watched Monarch of the Glen?

I have!  I watched it a few years ago when it was on Netflix.  Loved it!  :)

[glitterkittythefabulous]

@titancia: Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan was pretty good, as was In the After by Demitria Lunetta, and the sequel In the End

Ooh, those look good!  They’re going on my list.  Thanks!

[compulsivefarmer]

The clinic maybe, but my mother is supposably looking for the donor files she was given. I’m not holding my breath, though. I’ve been after her for years to get that information. I might just call up the clinic myself and see if they can tell me anything. I have the date she was there thanks to my grandmother’s journals. I really don’t care about connecting with any biological relatives. I just want family medical history.

[romanticreader]

In response to your Book title post: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. There's 3 of them--have you read them all? What were your thoughts? It's one of my absolute favorite series and I gush about them all the time.

I read the first one! But I never got around to the other two so I’ll just rate The Forest of Hands and Teeth:

not interested | will look into it | added to TBR | on my TBR | couldn’t finish it | ugh | it was OK | really enjoyed it | loved it | LIFE RUINER | it killed me with wonder

[craftdiscoveries]

I’m organizing my photos so I’m coming across a lot of old stuff. For instance: April 30, 2015. I took a snapshot of the baby stickers because my co worker was pregnant and I desperately wanted her to start scrapbooking! :)--Dawn