This past week I have been involved in the butchering of 6 deer. I still have 9 fingers. It has been sweet. First I helped Tim Fodor (former director of Explore) and he taught me a lot. Tim likes to have good quality meat, and spends a considerable amount of time cleaning the meat. I got a lot of practice doing this. I also did things like cut steaks, cubed meat, and ground meat. I helped operate the grinder and package some meat.
Today I went over to Pam and Dwayne’s house and helped them with their three deer. This time I concentrated on skinning and cutting the meat off the dear itself. I did one complete deer myself, skinning, breaking the legs and head off, and cutting off the meat. It was really good experience. Hopefully I can put it into practice over Christmas break.
Oh, I also ate lunch at the Koop’s house. There were four students there and we all cut our own steak and grilled it. We also had some soup that Pam had made, and some bread that Shane (explore senior intern) had made. It was the best meal I have had in the past 3 months.
Last night I was a score keeper for the volleyball games. That was a neat experience. All the minor officials there were new and had never done it before, including the announcer. My job was fairly easy, just push a few buttons whenever a score was made. I also had to set the timer for timeouts and time between games. I will be doing this again tonight. Tanton, who is in Explore, plays on the guys team so I have someone to root for.
Very cool.