Small town Girl: 2008

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas Night

We spent the evening at Matt's parents with his Aunt Suzi and Uncle Jimmy from Vancouver and cousin Karyn and boyfriend Roger from Bellingham. Matt got the game "Don't forget the Lyrics" so here we all are playing it.

We got Roger and Donna new camping chairs for Christmas as theirs were really old and the last time we went camping with them they both fell over in their chairs. Hopefully these new chairs will resolve that problem.

Aaron & Karyn

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Christmas Morning

Before the boys woke up everything was pretty peaceful.

Then it was time to open presents.

What else do you get them when you have 4 feet of snow outside - A snowball blaster;

I got new snowshoes and poles as I was using Aaron's snowshoes (from before he wore a size 17 shoe) and using my cross country ski poles. Matt got him a pair also so we can go together. I usually walk my dogs every morning around the property but there has been so much snow it has been hard to so luckily we had the snow shoes.

Exchanging gifts.

Sparky patiently waiting to go outside.

Matt got a new carrhart coat

Hmmm....and these I bought for both boys but maybe was not such a good idea, blow up boxing gloves.

And Jasper finally got to open his stocking, didn't take him long to figure out how to open packages.

Sparky, he's an old pro at opening packages. That's why we now have the stockings. We use to wrap his presents and put them under the tree with everyone elses until he started unwrapping them when ever he felt like it.

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Christmas Eve

All the stockings were hung by the chimney with care - as Jasper whined and whined to have his early. This was Jasper's first Christmas so I am not sure how he knew there was stuff up there for him. He tried his best to get it early but I didn't give in, no matter how cute he tried to look.

Dinner was at Matt's parents as we had cousin Karyn Cowdrey and her boy-friend over from Bellingham. We had shrimp, scallops, king crab, oysters, pasta and bread - it was a feast.

Karyn had steak as she is not a seafood fan - too bad for her.

Grampy relaxing, looks like Sparky and Jasper decided too also.

Just hanging out with the humans.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

First snowmobiling of the season

Matt and the boys decided to go snowmobiling on Christmas Eve, I was at work.

They met a moose along the way.

The powder was very deep.

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Snow Day

The dogs were getting a bit of cabin fever so we went out for a snowshoe around the property.

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Castle Christmas pets

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Friday, November 21, 2008

And they're off.......

Matt and the boys left today for a 9 day Elk hunt trip - I and the furry boys stay behind for this adventure - It's a mans thing. They will be gone over Thanksgiving but I will be spending it with my parents for the first time in over 8 years, we had a bit of a falling out and reconnected this spring - crazy ordeal - I wouldn't recommend it to anyone - a lot happens in 8 years. An Elk is something we have not had the luck at getting, so far. Good luck guys.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Time to cut up the deer

I made 15 pounds of jerky, which I think turned into 3 - maybe. No wonder why Jerky cost so much. Jerky is something I usually make when we have venison available to us. I usually don't use the smoker when I make jerky - I prefer using the food dehydrator as the meat is already so seasoned it doesn't need the extra smoke flavor.

I also made 10 pounds of summer sausage, this is about a 3 day process, but well worth the effort. These I smoked in the smoker then finished off in the oven to make sure the temperature was up where it needed to be.

Then I made about 35 pounds of breakfast sausage, this was a new experience for me, I mixed the ground up meat with bacon, sage and ginger. We had some the other night and it was pretty good. Good thing since I have 35 pounds of it.

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