Saturday, December 12, 2020
warning: graphic, gruesome, and totally redneck...
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18underoneroof
summer 2011
Paul and I, all 16 kids and Ashley, Benjamin's wife...Christmas 2012
family
Paul and I with our 16 kids
with Ashley and lil' Anya
About Me
- 16 blessings'mom
- I am a stay at home mom with 16 kids, no twins, Army mom, wife to Paul (still crazy about him!!!)...4 kids are still at home....the kids: Emily 38, Abigail 36, Benjamin 34 (his wife Ashley and our granddaughter Anya 9, Elise 5,Declan 1), Mariel 33, Joseph 31(and wife Bethany), Aaron 30and husband Riley) MollyRose 29(husband Josh and granddaughter Lydia, 7+Ophelia 3), Samuel 27(wife Grace,Grant 5 and Ruth will be two in August) Margaret 26(and son-in-law Adrian! and Wulf, 5,Tennyson 2), Kathryn 25(and husband Darius, son Achilles 3, b Rhys will be 2 inJune, baby Jamison) Evelyn 23, Suzanne 22, Sonja 20, Jonathan 18 Charlotte Claire 16 and Camille 15. Help for life can be found at www.activechristianity.org , which is a great source of encouragement for me.
aaron
6 comments:
Paul can keep the deer liver and everything deer (on the other hand, my menfolk would love it)-grin. I hope you have a beautiful day friend. smiles
What do they do with the heads? I don't understand big game hunting but if he's hunting to eat it then it entirely makes some sense. And I guess you know that the deer had a lovely life scampering about until it had a date with Paul!
Living on the California coast, the hunting, slaughtering, and eating of venison is totally foreign to me. And I absolutely know that I couldn't frost cookies in the same room that slaughtering is taking place! Guess I am just a wimp.
Laurie in California
Linda, I agree. I will eat some of the roasts he makes, there's one with orange zest in the crock pot that's good. But the venison meatloaf, even with bacon, um, nah. When we were first married and totally broke, we ate venison all that first winter, because free meat. Chrissy, some of the hunters mount the heads and put them in their man caves or garages, or if they have really nice wives, in their houses, I guess. We have entirely too many deer here, they are a nuisance in gardens, but mostly they are dangerous for drivers, running out in front and causing accidents. They NEED to be hunted, or they will starve, the herds need culling. Paul is a very humane hunter, and only kills what he will eat. He won't shoot a small one, either, or a doe with a fawn. It's not like he goes out and shoots things like lions and tigers, just because.
Laurie, believe me, I couldn't bear it either. I'm so glad he's having someone do all the cutting and wrapping this year!
That's exactly how I imagine it should be - I live on the edge of the New Forest and they don't allow hunting there. They used have fox hunts and stag hunts on horse back with packs of dogs for fun - totally inhumane. I think if you are planning to eat your catch then there is no moral issue. It's not super different to keeping an allotment and growing your food - because free food! I'm actually in the process of considering returning to a veggie diet because I keep thinking about the fact I know I cant slaughter an animal. I cried when one of our chickens died!
Chrissy, I know, I couldn't keep chickens except for the eggs, no way could I raise them to eat. I would fall in love with them all. Ben and Ashley went through the same thing, they would all be so sad if one of the chickens died. We've talked about getting a pig, but you KNOW I would be naming and befriending that pig, and it would never be turned to bacon. I do love meat, so I try not to think about what it actually is...because I love animals too.
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