Spicy Spanish Paprika Goat Sausage... And Other Such Things...

I know I have been gone for most of year now, and that probably deserves an explanation. I got sidetracked with laziness. I can’t think of a better way to phrase it. I somehow found myself rather doing nothing, and so nothing is what I did.

I don’t know why that happened. I actually really liked writing this blog, and updating it. And to be honest… it kept me honest. On days that I would want to push a project off to a later date, a little voice would pop up in the back of my head and say, but if you don’t do this, then what are you going to blog about today? And I would have no choice but to agree with the imaginary voice in my head and get up and get the project started.

Don’t get me entirely wrong. Just because I stepped away from blogging about my rural life doesn’t mean I quit living it. I have been busy-ish, even if I haven’t been habitually blogging it. Just last weekend we butchered one of this year’s Billy goats, and ground the whole thing up before turning him into a Spicy Spanish Paprika Goat Sausage… The sausage turned out all sorts of epic awesome, but raw goat meat doesn’t photograph very well, and besides, my hands were covered in raw meat so I couldn’t touch the camera… and that is why I have no pictures to share of it.

One cool thing that did come out of the sausage adventure (we also butchered three rabbits and turned that meat into a breakfast sausage) was that we were able to add twenty-five pounds of ground meat to our dwindling freezer stores. If you check back to the very first post I made to this blog almost a year ago, I was raging about the lack of freezer space do to a recent cow butchering… well, since that post we have been eating a lot of beef, and now our ground meat supply is at a critical level, and I hate eating steak (but… we did just buy an electric meat grinder, so I will probably be turning a lot of that steak into ground beef)!

I’m more than off topic. I came on here to say that I am back… again. (I say that a lot, don’t I?) I have missed blogging about my rural farming adventures. Maybe tomorrow I will get a chance to run around the farm and give a quick photo update of everything that you guys have missed out on while I was away… It is winter, and cold, and snowy here, so there will be a lack of garden pictures… but since the last time I have updated this thing we have acquired about twelve heritage pigs, a few more goats, a variety of poultry, and a few other things… Come back tomorrow and check out the update.