The week of Thanksgiving in West Virginia marks the beginning of buck hunting season and a couple people from our house were excited to try our hands at hunting. Ben spent most of the week at Shepherd's field hunting with Mike and Dennis, getting up just before dawn each day with few breaks until sun down. Mike planned to go out with Lester Tuesday afternoon but Ella got sick and had to stay home with daddy. Then Wednesday, Heidi and Ian ended up travelling to Goshen to be with her family for the rest of the week as her grandmother become ill and needed surgery and a hospital stay. She has since recovered and is home again, but it changed our house's Thanksgiving plans quite a bit. But back to hunting because Ben would be disappointed if I didn't share his exciting story. If you want to hear a more lengthy and detailed version, ask Ben, but he had success his second morning and took down a nice doe that we all processed Thanksgiving weekend. In you're interested in seeing all the lovely pictures, click on the photo below.
We spent the good portion of a Saturday afternoon skinning, chopping, grinding, and wrapping up venison from Ben's doe (and two others). Not everyone was excited about the whole process. In fact, some were downright squeamish at first (Ian never really got over it). Everyone took turns slicing and dicing, and some had enough after a few minutes, but others really got into it. Micah was hesitant at first but really got into the meat, and Abby found the bone and ligaments fascinating :) We are thankful now to have a good amount of venison in our freezer for the next couple months. Ben has already cooked up sloppy joes for us to enjoy using some of the meat.
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